On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 12:54 -0700, asomers@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > When I design surface mount boards I make extensive use of planes, and > it is a severe annoyance that I can't automatically connect those > planes to component pads. The standard solutions to this problem seem > to be either: What is wrong with a track segment which you "join" to the polygon with the "j" hotkey? (Were you aware of that one?) When it comes to auto-thermal'ing pads, one has a lot of possible choices of trace thickness, orientation etc.. and it is not obvious whether an auto-thermal would be an easy thing to do. IMO, what we "want" is an auto-join based on connectivity. (Lets presume we can mark the plane as "belonging" to the GND net.. draw a trace which connects to a pad which belongs to that net and it should quite probably join up (by default). NB: Sometimes one deliberately routes a track belonging to the same "net" separately - 4 terminal current sensing springs to mind, where big polygons might make up the power traces. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me)
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