Best way to do an odd shaped through-hole pad?

Question

I'm new to Eagle, trying to design a device in Eagle, (IRFP4468, a high power mosfet) ... i want the pads like the picture below. I drew them using polygons on the "pad" layer, around a square pad.

How can I specify the connection point? Right now it wants to connect at the circle, which screws up what I'm trying to accomplish. (second picture)

I'm sure I'm going about this all wrong, but i can't figure out what I should do. Any pointers?

rachaelp · Accepted Answer

Ah yes, I see it now, my laptop changes the colour temp of its display at night and so that trace looks almost black against the black background so I didn't notice....

So you could bring the 0.25" trace into the pad but click to place the end of that segment just into the pad and then change the width of the final segment to be smaller so it doesn't spill over the pad and into the one next to it. Does that make sense?

I'm assuming you are routing manually here and not relying on the autorouter.

Best Regards,

Rachael

rachaelp · Answer

Hi Bill, Just finish it off with a thinner trace to make your 0.25" trace meet the connection point in the pad then there won't be any remaining air wires. Best Regards, Rachael