Actually I believe that it is just defaulting to a solid pour, and I am not quite sure whether it is just pouring edge to edge, as someone else mentioned, or whether it is doing a minimum overlap of one of two mils (could always find out by doing a small polygon and then "releasing" it and then looking at the individual elements and their locations).
Even when grid is set to zero, I believe the pour is still made according to the track width that you selected, which will still dictate the resolution (along with smallest segment), which seems to be the deciding factor when it comes to the actual size of the polygon by virtue of the number of elements in the pour. Now if setting the grid to zero would just fix the @#*&%$! Analyzing GND issue . . . JaMi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry Creer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Protel EDA Discussion List'" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 2:00 PM Subject: RE: [PEDA] Polygon Pour Problem (& do you know about this bug!?) > Ok - this is bizarre - I just tried that on a 800+kb PCB file with 2 large > polygons - I changed the grid size to zero and it made the final PCB size > 20kb SMALLER. > > Must be an 'undocumented feature' methinks... > > TC > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Brooks,Bill > Sent: Tuesday, 1 March 2005 6:06 AM > To: 'Protel EDA Discussion List' > Subject: RE: [PEDA] Polygon Pour Problem (& do you know about this bug!?) > > Doesn't that make your file size very large? > Or is this one of those 'undocumented features'? > > > Bill Brooks - KG6VVP > PCB Design Engineer , C.I.D.+, C.I.I. > Tel: (760)597-1500 Ext 3772 Fax: (760)597-1510 > e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.dtwc.com > http://pcbwizards.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Parr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 1:36 AM > To: Protel EDA Discussion List > Subject: Re: [PEDA] Polygon Pour Problem (& do you know about this bug!?) > > Hi Brad, > > >> Oh one tip for you, if you set your polygon grid size to > >> "0", it will pour the track widths edge to edge every > >> time giving you a solid polygon regardless of the track width. > > Oh! Very COOL - Haven't figured that in over 5 years! Have just checked this > on 99SE and it works just fine. > > The artwork I used to test your 'tip' uses some fine dimensioning and > pad/component placement. The outer limits of polygon pours were previously > rather ragged in various places. > > Your 'tip' completely cleaned up these areas with no other changes. > > Regards, > Jim Parr > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum > > To Post messages: > mailto:[email protected] > > Unsubscribe and Other Options: > http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com > > Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > > ____________________________________________________________ > You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum > > To Post messages: > mailto:[email protected] > > Unsubscribe and Other Options: > http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com > > Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum > > To Post messages: > mailto:[email protected] > > Unsubscribe and Other Options: > http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com > > Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
