Bill
First save to new file. Do a save as and save it as an asii file.
You might have to change its properties to text. Do a right click on the
file and see properties.
Then open it in the text editor and look for polygons that are in the
negative or don't
look right. Delete this line or lines. Save the file change its properties
back to pcb and open it.
The polygon will be gone.
I just did this to a file and remembered having to do this a long time ago.
If you have more than one polygon the layer in question I suggest you move
the ones you want to another
layer as this will make deleting the ghost. I hope you know what layer its
on. If not delete all polygons.
Its easy to put them back.
At 02:47 PM 5/23/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Actually you can use the 'toggle selection' command and left click on a
>normal polygon fill and it highlight. Then you can 'crtl delete' it...
>that's an alternative way to delete polygon fills. My problem is with a fill
>that can't be selected .. at all. using any of the methods that normally
>work on elements in the design file. All of the elements are in positive
>space... and I e-mailed tech support and sent them a copy of the file to
>look at.
>Thanks - Bill Brooks
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Crist, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 2:38 PM
>To: 'Protel EDA Forum'
>Subject: Re: [PEDA] help - Please... Filled Ground plane <Ghosts>...
>canno t be delete d.
>
>
>I was confused about what you meant by "ghost" polygons. I have moved
>polygons before and had them disappear from view when they no longer connect
>to the rest of the net. A polygon that has disappeared in this manner can't
>be viewed unless you doubleclick on them and regenerate them, and then you
>can only see it briefly as it redraws and disappears again. This is what I
>thought you meant by a ghost. What you're describing sounds like a bug of
>some sort.
>Still, the only way I know of deleting a polygon is to use Edit/Delete. It
>would be nice if you could double click on a polygon and get a dialog box
>that included a Select box to check. Add this to my wish list!
>
>Mike Crist
>Newport Corp.
>
>
Rusty Garfield
Development Technician IV
Sugar Land Product Center
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