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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by ocean_front_view[/i] [br]I have a case where I would like to add a guard spacing to a pad to keep the copper from coming too close during the pours but I don't want to apply it to the entire net. Best solution I have come up with was to make a component that really had two pad and one was just a top side SMT pad that would more to less add a ring around my through hole pad. It works but not having to two pads tied together caused a lot of DRC errors. I have many cases where there are several traces that leave the pad and may cause 5 or 6 DRC errors per pad and it a lot to deal with. The real issue is we have a single pin connector that has a wire crimp band that has a sharp edge on it and if it gets pulled sideways it can cut through traces that are too close. These are large holes and I could just make a very large pad to deal with this but is on a 4oz copper board and I really need better thermal relief for soldering. Thanks David [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.