eagle ground plane thermals

Community PCB Design
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Im using the new Eagle 5.4 for the first time. Ive been using 4.3 forever till now. When setting my ground plane using the poly tool as I’m used to I use all the standard settings, solid pour, thermals on, orphans off. For some reason the traces connecting to GND pins are very tiny. I cant figure out why.

Pic is what im talking about, really really zoomed in on a GND pad of a cap. The gnd pad is the one on the right.

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Your polygon width is probably set to 0. You need to choose a wider trace, you’ll be able to tell when drawing the polygon edges if you have a trace width or not.

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It’s probably due to what macegr said…

Use the info tool and click on the polygon. Under wire - width, change the measurement to something bigger.

Has it worked?

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yep that was it! thanks guys!