Homebrew PCBs

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Mike Young" <mikewhy@...> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Harvey White" <madyn@...>
> To: <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
> 
> >>> For mounting pads, try polygons.
> >>>
> >>> Harvey
> >>
> >>Not exactly sure what you meant by that tip, Harvey
> >>Do you mean mounting pads for connecting SMT parts?
> >
> > Yes, or anything else you want to solder to the foil directly.  I also
> > use polygons for large ground planes.
> 
> If you have special needs, sure, you could do that. For almost
everthing 
> else, though, just place the part in the schematic, connect it up,
and the 
> pads for the selected part show up on the board. If you selected, for 
> example, a transistor 2N2222 in a TO92 case, the footprint for the
TO92 is 
> placed on the board. If it was an SOT23 package, the SMD for that
would be 
> on the board. You'll almost always find it easier to design special
pads as 
> an SMD's in the library editor than as polygons on the board. Ground
and 
> power planes, of course, are exceptions.

Although I don't need a polygon now, I have used polygon to
create a groundplane in the past.    However, when doing so,
I could not figure out how to merge the filled polygon
with the adjacent ground trace.    Eagle always left an etched space
between the two.