Hi!
In the past i have designed PCB's at school, but that is now 15 years ago and a lot has changed. I choose EasyEDA for a new project that i need to design a PCB for. The schematics worked fine, and i even was able to create a few custom footprints. This project contains high power circuits up to 40A. If i use 8mm wide traces on both sides of the board with 4oz copper, i think it will be fine, but these wide traces are taking up to much space at the pins and i need a fix for this.
\- The ultra large traces need to carry 40A at the least\, will run on both sides\, and need to me 8mm wide\.
\- The medium traces need to carry currents of 15A \(20A would be preferred\) so 4mm traces on both sides are needed
\- With a few exceptions most other traces will only need a few mA
Please see the images below to see what problems i need to fix for my routing.
A: This is a custom footprint that i made with square pads. Connecting these adds a lot of extra copper around the pads that i do not want. I need to pass some smaller traces between these.
B: In this case the special pad size also adds a lot of useless copper
C: Here the 2 pads are connected trough the additional copper. This is actually not a problem because these need to be connected anyway, but how can i prevent this?
Hope you guys can help. Thanks in advance!![pcb pads.png](//image.easyeda.com/pullimage/owbzF6xeOEr2U81vUB5QCHtVnFXOxJqMRseHC1b4.png)
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