Hi,
I would love some dialog about whether to use the Flash symbols for thermal relief or not. I have read a lot of material on the pros and cons and as Steve (local Pro around this forum), "why do the extra work?" I would seem that if its so critical and OrCAD teaching seems to go with the ideal of Negitive planes and pushes that type of design, then why wouldn't OrCAD just have a bunch of the flash symbols generic in the library and also have the padstacks setup with them in the layers?? In version 16.xx, if a Positive plane is selected, then the flash symbols are not used and you get the + across the pad so it just seems that the tools should have the padstacks defaulted with the Thermal Relief setup for Flash.
Any help shedding light on this subject is greatly appreciated.
KC