{"id":1144,"date":"2013-03-13T12:12:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T19:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/jimmartens\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:19:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:19:54","slug":"pads-tips-and-tricks-creating-split-planes-and-manipulating-thermal-and-antipads-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/2013\/03\/13\/pads-tips-and-tricks-creating-split-planes-and-manipulating-thermal-and-antipads-2\/","title":{"rendered":"PADS Tips and Tricks: Creating Split Planes and Manipulating Thermal and Antipads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s Tip and Trick comes from Bill Tkachuk in customer support.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pads.com\/multimedia\/start-smarter-with-powerful-layout-and-routing-in-pads?cmpid=9049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PADS Layout<\/a> has very powerful split plane functionality.\u00a0 Along with this, it gives the user great control on how to change, modify, and customize the thermal relief and antipads in these splits.<\/p>\n<p>Bill wrote a great <a href=\"http:\/\/supportnet.mentor.com\/reference\/appnotes\/index.cfm?id=MG581658\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TechNote (MG581658)<\/a> which gives step-by-step directions on how to create split planes, set default thermal and antipads, and how to customize these pads.<\/p>\n<p>Jim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s Tip and Trick comes from Bill Tkachuk in customer support. PADS Layout has very powerful split plane functionality.\u00a0 Along&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16541,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16541"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10357,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions\/10357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}