Re: gEDA-user: Resend - Surface Plane connected part footprints

[John Griessen <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tony Radice wrote:

>     What I did was place a series of 10mil x 10mil square pads around
> the perimeter of pad 2 such that there is 0 clearance between pad 2 and
> the "thermal" pad, and 0 clearance between the thermal pad boundary and
> the fill around the part.

Seems like a time saver compared to adding lines one at a time to do the same.
It also saves time for gsch2pcb boards since the pin 2 grounded thermals come right with
the footprint.
Did you give the 10milX10mil pads the same "2" pinnumber, but with groundplane clearance set to join?
Seems like it will work the same on either side of a board, right?

I think of ways to reuse layout chunks, even small ones, and wonder
about what it would take to add named circuit regions to the library window
for placement, and how to get them associated to the netlist easily.

It's also possible to save footprints and lines
from a buffer to file.pcb and and reload file.pcb to a buffer for similar effects,
it just takes picking from named files in your project directory.  It doesn't
match up to the netlist in an automated way like your idea allows.

I like the way you get some tedious work done at the
schematic level, (special named component versions for grounded parts), by this tactic.

John Griessen
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Ecosensory   Austin TX


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