Re: gEDA-user: thermal vias in pcb

[Darrell Harmon <dlharmon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 03:04:54PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > Sorry. Hard to keep track of what came in when. I've found this
> > feature really useful so I rather took it for granted.
> 
> We also had a big gap in shapshots (which people now treat as
> releases), so a lot of new stuff came in with the last one.
> 
> Still, there are features that aren't in the last snapshot either.  I
> think this is a good thing - it means we're making progress.

Thank you for adding the support for connecting vias to planes with no
thermal. I have been wanting that for a long time.

I downloaded the latest snapshot (20070208), installed it and opened
my spectrum analyzer RF board. PCB was extremely slow, but I was able
to toggle a few of the thermals to solid. Zooming took about 15
seconds on my Athlon 64 2.2 GHz machine with 2 GB of RAM. I opened the
file with emacs and changed about 600 thermals to solid. Without the
spoked thermals, PCB is responsive again. I can email the files if 
anyone wants. The speed issue is not a problem for me as I want all
of those vias to not have thermals.

-- 
Darrell Harmon
http://dlharmon.com


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