Carl, This is opening a whole new can of worms. First the request is for a justified thermal pad that is becoming more frequent. But after that, I have seen request for via patterns on thermal pads. So, now an SMT part can be a mix of pads and through holes that can even be blind in some cases. No sure about kicad ability to deal with that.
Jean-Paul AC9GH On Jul 18, 2014, at 7:52 PM, Carl Poirier <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I would like to discuss this here. Very recently, a contributor has opened a > pull request for a symbol to add an extra pin for an exposed pad. Kerusey > then suggested to statically assign the pad to a net instead of having an > extra symbol. This does indeed work, but the contributor has raised the point > that every time the netlist is read, the static assignments have to be set > again. > > First of all, is static assignment the way we should go to deal with extra > pads? If so, how about making the static assignments stick through a netlist > read, as long as that pin is not tied to another net in the schematic? > > Regards, > > Carl > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
