I noticed there were alot of replies to this, so I hope I am not mentioning
something already brought up.
I have dealt with this before I think.
What I would do to repair this(If I remember right it usually happened on
designs that were originally created in Protel 98 or earlier... then brought
in to 99SE) is to do...
Select-->All
Move-->Selection
Then grab it and zoom out... move the selection around a bit so you can be
sure you have the entire bounding rectangle inside the workspace. When you
can see it is all contained set it down.
When it asks to re-pour answer yes and watch the polygons closely.
If it is the issue I remember the polygons will get re-poured fully... but
not in the location you expected... they somehow got moved.
Once they have been re-poured you should be able to delete them, since they
now actually show in the same place that they exist.
This was a rare issue... but the solution was the same in every instance I
saw.
Hope that helps.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Brooks,Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Protel EDA Forum'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 11:52 AM
Subject: [PEDA] help - Please... Filled Ground plane <Ghosts>... cannot be
delete d.
>
> I have had this problem in 98, 99, 99SE and I am using 99SE SP5 right
now...
> (because Service pack 6 has some unacceptable bugs).
>
> Problem: Polygon Fills - Somehow... a change happens in the design file
> where the old regeneration for the polygon fill gets visibly stuck in the
> file somehow and cannot be deleted or manipulated in any way shape or form
.
> In other words... I cant get rid of the old polygon fill.
>
> Regeneration of the existing polygon fill, or deleting the polygon fill
does
> not get rid of the ghost. Copying the entire design by turning on all the
> layers and selecting all, and crtl-C copying to clipboard and pasting
> special (with same nets and duplicating the designators ) results in a
copy
> of the ghost in the new file... still can't get rid of it...
>
> Does anyone know how to get rid of this bug?
>
> Bill Brooks
> PCB Design Engineer
> DATRON WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC.
> 3030 Enterprise Court
> Vista, CA 92083
> Tel: (760)597-1500 Ext 3772 Fax: (760)597-1510
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> IPC Designers Council, San Diego Chapter
> http://www.ipc.org/SanDiego/
> http://home.fda.net/bbrooks/pca/pca.htm
>
>
>
> Writing the entire file to 2.8 and reading it back in used to fix this in
> 98. But now I can't even do that work around.
>
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