Hi,

I do not know this footprint, but when I need a zone in the midle of a 
footprint, I also create a row of square pins all of them with number 0 
(zero). So I have only one pin with number 0 in the Eeschema component.

If you create a single big pad or a zone in the module, the component wil be 
floating on the solder paste, like a surfing table on a wave, when soldering.

Pedro.
> Thank you - that's useful.   I see you broke up the thermal pad with the
> solder mask, which is as recommended.   Do you know how to do that with
> kicad?   I tried creating a zone on the mask layer, but it didn't work.
>   I've therefore gone for creating an array of dummy pins (ie 33
> onwards), all connected to ground.

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