Issue with disappearing thermals and overlapping pads

I'm designing a small board which is meant to be flexible in the choice of components. I have two SMD capacitors of a different size but connected to the same nets, and only one of them are to be populated in a single board.

One pad is connected to a ground plane with thermals, but when I place both components so that the pads overlap eachother, the thermals disappear. I took two screenshots to illustrate the problem I'm having more clearly:

This is not an immediate problem and is easy to solve manually, but it may be something you would like to look in to in a future release.

Kind regards,

Anders

Former Member over 12 years ago

On 2/15/2013 9:18 AM, Anders Andersson wrote:
I'm designing a small board which is meant to be flexible in the choice of components. I have two SMD capacitors of a different size but connected to the same nets, and only one of them are to be populated in a single board.

One pad is connected to a ground plane with thermals, but when I place both components so that the pads overlap eachother, the thermals disappear. I took two screenshots to illustrate the problem I'm having more clearly:

http://www.natrox.org/img/el/eagle-thermal-bug.png

This is not an immediate problem and is easy to solve manually, but it may be something you would like to look in to in a future release.

Kind regards,
Anders

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Hi Anders,

Thank you for your comment, but this isn't a normal use case. I'm sure
if you run the DRC now there will be a couple of errors generated by
placing parts directly on top of each other. The first image is what we
would recommend as the best practice, something else you could is modify
the silkscreen and just use one set of pads in this case the larger set.

hth,
Jorge Garcia
Cadsoft Support
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