X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Subject: [geda-user] =?UTF-8?Q?Connecting_SMD_pads_to_polygon_in?= =?UTF-8?Q?_PCB?= From: =?UTF-8?Q?michalwd1979?= To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <1ee99fc8.26953fb3.4f1b3541.7f424@o2.pl> Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:59:29 +0100 X-Originator: 46.186.75.53 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id q0LMFkem031345 Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Dear Members, Is there any "official" way to connect SMD pads to polygons in PCB? I am usually create a simple cross using tracks with "join" flag set and then copy it to given pads. It works, but sometimes is problematic, especially when I need to remove a connection. I think that it is common to use polygons as a ground planes, so such connection is often needed. I wish that I could add and remove pad-polygon connection with one click like with normal through-hole pads. Long time ago one of the developers (I think that it was Peter Clifton, but I'm not sure) send me a PCB plugin to auto add thermals to pads that should be connected to a given net. I have lost this plugin in a very stupid way and now I can not find it anywhere. Could You Peter send it again please? For some time I want to start learning writing PCB plugins, but with very limited documentation it is hard... Anyway this is the most wanted functionality for me and I wish to spend some time on it :-). Very best regards, Michael W.