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Adjustable Thermal Relief/ Spokes

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Chris Wil 5 years ago

In many cases when designing a PCB it's desirable to adjust the thermal relief/ spokes, to make soldering easier by reducing the heat that is transferred into the copper fill. The features that would be most useful is: -Adjustable spoke length -Adjustable spoke width as a percentage of the size of the pad I see two main alternatives. The first one is having this as a setting to the copper fill. Which means it would happen to all the pads on the same net as the copper fill. The second one, which is preferable is to have it as a part of the settings for the pad.

Chrome 73.0.3683.75 Windows 10 EasyEDA 5.9.42

Comments

andyfierman 5 years ago

@UserSupport, This is a good feature to have and there are two threads asking for almost the same things but it needs careful thought about how to implement it. * Please also refer to: [https://easyeda.com/forum/topic/Adjust-thermal-relief-49fab00a8bc9492a8ae50f621f478efd](https://easyeda.com/forum/topic/Adjust-thermal-relief-49fab00a8bc9492a8ae50f621f478efd) and: [https://easyeda.com/forum/topic/Modified-spoked-ground-planing-430fb8fc7edb422ea4b27741385fd936](https://easyeda.com/forum/topic/Modified-spoked-ground-planing-430fb8fc7edb422ea4b27741385fd936)

Chrome 73.0.3683.75 AndroidOS 8.1.0 EasyEDA 5.9.42

MiniMax 5 years ago

Hello, adjustable spoke size is very useful. Please put on the todo list. regards

Chrome 75.0.3770.27 Windows 10 EasyEDA 6.1.41

MiniMax 5 years ago

Hello, is there any workaround to get the spokes smaler? This is driving me crazy because the pads are nearly not solderable on some pcbs. @Usersupport: please add this to your todo / feature list. regards

Chrome 76.0.3809.46 Windows 10 EasyEDA 6.1.51

oomek 5 years ago

Hi, I'm also interested in a workaround if there is any. There are actually 2 issues with spokes: 1\. When copper area clearance is to low too much heat dissipates to ground during soldering as the spoke size scales with the pad size\. 2\. When copper area clearance is larger than half of the pad distance there are orphaned spokes visible\. Here is the image that explain both issues in detail: ![EasyEDA Spokes.png](//image.easyeda.com/pullimage/M4gKNskB0ekmkuVDwOoJIJA1WveivSnyRvKtt5by.png)

Chrome 76.0.3809.87 Windows 10 EasyEDA 6.1.52

oomek 5 years ago

Any update on this? Please, it's stopping me from pushing my PCB design to the manufacturing.

Chrome 76.0.3809.87 Windows 10 EasyEDA 6.1.52

oomek 5 years ago

I've tried the newly released version **v6.2.34** and sadly those issues are still present.

Chrome 76.0.3809.87 Windows 10 EasyEDA 6.2.34

oomek 5 years ago

Still no response... I would like to know if it's at least on your TODO list please.

Chrome 77.0.3865.19 Windows 10 EasyEDA 6.2.34

MiniMax 5 years ago

Hello, sad it is not implemented in this new version. But hey, its free software, so nothing to complain. Is there any known workaround I can use till this is adjustable? Maybe I should use grids for the copper plane with larger gridline distances. regards

Chrome 77.0.3865.19 Windows 10 EasyEDA 6.2.34

UserSupport 5 years ago

@MiniMax @oomek It is on the to do list, but we didn't put it on the schedule resently yet. The we decided to improve the editor performance first, that is important than this feature. we will support it at v6.4 Thanks

Chrome 76.0.3809.100 Windows 10 EasyEDA 6.2.34

MiniMax 5 years ago

Hi, thats great news. I saw a screenshot in another post with spoke width setting! Great! This really helps! regards

Chrome 77.0.3865.19 Windows 10 EasyEDA 6.2.34

oomek 5 years ago

Thank you for your response.

Chrome 77.0.3865.19 Windows 10 EasyEDA 6.2.35

jaybur33 4 years ago

In the meantime, would it be possible to do a quick fix by simply reducing the fixed width that EasyEDA uses, since it's set much wider than default widths defined by every other PCB design software I've ever used? This issue has caused me serious problems with previous designs and is preventing me from going to manufacture with any new ones - which makes EasyEDA unusable for me.

Firefox 69.0 Windows 81 EasyEDA 6.2.46

jaybur33 4 years ago

Thanks to the all the team at EasyEDA for adding the thermal spoke width feature to version 6.3.22. There is istill the "orphaned spokes" issue as pointed out by oomek (orphaned spokes should be culled) but 6.3.22 is never-the-less a big improvement .

Electron 3.0.11 Windows 81 EasyEDA 6.3.22

UserSupport 4 years ago

@jaybur33 orphaned spokes will be removed in the future.

Chrome 79.0.3945.88 Windows 10 EasyEDA 6.3.22

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