Dwight,
Do the Split planes touch each other at all?
This will cause the error statement.
Steve Smith
Product Engineer
Staco Energy Products Co.
Web Site: www.stacoenergy.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dwight Harm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 4:03 PM
> To: 'Protel EDA Forum'
> Subject: Re: [PEDA] DRC - overlapping spliit planes message
>
>
> John (et al),
> All the vias seems well inside the boundaries. I did find
> that if I delete
> all the vias, the warning goes away. Putting just one via
> back gets the
> warning.
>
> As another experiment, I tried changing the net assigned to
> the split plane
> (on my ground plane) to No Net, and to some random net. In
> both cases the
> warning did not change, nor were additional warnings issued,
> which seems
> odd, since the vias would be causing a short between two nets.
>
> I'm not even sure what Protel means by "overlapping". The
> top & bottom
> polygons, and the inner plane splits, all have identical (I think!)
> boundaries.
>
> Dwight.
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