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[Jean-Paul Louis <louijp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Carl,

This is opening a whole new can of worms. First the request is for a justified thermal pad that is becoming more frequent. But after that, I have seen request for via patterns on thermal pads. So, now an SMT part can be a mix of pads and through holes that can even be blind in some cases.
No sure about kicad ability to deal with that.

Jean-Paul
AC9GH


On Jul 18, 2014, at 7:52 PM, Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> I would like to discuss this here. Very recently, a contributor has opened a pull request for a symbol to add an extra pin for an exposed pad. Kerusey then suggested to statically assign the pad to a net instead of having an extra symbol. This does indeed work, but the contributor has raised the point that every time the netlist is read, the static assignments have to be set again.
> 
> First of all, is static assignment the way we should go to deal with extra pads? If so, how about making the static assignments stick through a netlist read, as long as that pin is not tied to another net in the schematic?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Carl
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