Hello,
Maybe this is something you allready know. Here is how I do batch polygon
plane re-pours: (I still have my head in the P98 hole so I don't know if
this works in P99SE)
(1) Select all the planes that you want re-poured. This is the hardest
step depending on how many planes you have and what-not. You can allways
do a "Select All" too.
(2) With the planes selected excecute a Move|Selection command but dont
move your selection by any distance, just go through the motions.
(3) Protel now thinks all the planes have moved and will ask "Repour all
polygons?" upon which you reply "Yes".
(4) Every selected plane will be re-poured one by one untill they are all
done. This could take a while.
This procedure is still sort of a manual thing in that you have to go
around selecting which plane you want but I don't see how you could get out
of that task anyways. The big advantage of this is having Protel crunch
the planes as a batch while freeing you do other things like sleep.
Just to chime in on your comments about large designs, my experience has
been that having alot of design rules (especially class rules) slows down
Protel more than anything else.
Dave Lewis
"Jason Morgan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 05/30/2001 01:41:33 AM
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Subject: [PEDA] Poly Plane Bug
I think I've found a bug in working with poly planes on large designs.
As we all know PCB3 becomes slow (unusable) in large designs, the solution
to this is to remove some of the 'unused' on-screen information and
background
functionally, see Knowledgebase Item ID: 1386.
One of the steps we've had to take is to turn off auto re-pour of poly
planes when manual
routing, other wise each via takes about 1 minute to draw.
Now, the design we are working on is very modular, such that the PCB is
being layed up
in modules that are gradually being added to a hierarchy as they are
required.
As each module or group of are added we need to 'Update PCB from
Schematic'.
If the poly plane is not re-poured before updating, and 'apply net to
connected copper' is
enabled (required as some tracks in the design are for nets to be supplied
by the new module),
then the import takes >15 minutes and causes many DRC errors.
This is because the planes are not correct, and in effect some signals are
connected to it.
Thus the correct action should be, a check box in 'Update PCB' that forces
all poly planes
to be re-poured before the import takes place.
So far as I can see there is no manual means of re-pouring ALL polygon
planes without visiting
each one in turn and pretending to edit it, forcing a re-pour.
The latter should be a function on one of the menus. Anybody want to write
a re-pour poly server?
Jason.
Jason Morgan - Development Engineer
CITEL Technologies Ltd.
Wheatcroft Business Park
Landmere Lane, Edwalton
NOTTINGHAM, NG12 4DG, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 115 940 5444 Ext 204
Direct: +44 (0) 115 931 5104
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