Re: gEDA-user: Thermals

[Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 09:39:19AM -0500, Harry Eaton wrote:
> Karel Kulhavy wrote:
> 
> >Why is it possible to make a thermal for pin, but not for a pad?
> > 
> >
> The reason is that pins usually have sufficient spacing that the plane 
> surrounding them remains intact on all sides and pads usually are so 
> tightly spaced that they do not. Because of this you must manually draw 
> the thermal "fingers" to connect the pad to the ground plane. Be sure 
> that you have the settings such that new lines connect to planes when 
> you draw them. If you need to make several such thermals, spend a little 

The thermal could be just a rectangle to bridge the clearance gap. And
one could select between thermal that connects only on the ends of the
pad and thermal that connects in all 4 points.

CL<
> time making the first one just the way you want then copy the fingers to 
> the buffer and paste it where you want the others.
> 
> h.
>