Yup.  I explicitly select the TopLayer and BottomLayer in the dialog.  I
will sometimes switch a poly to a mech layer while routing, simply to speed
things up, but that's not the case here.

Leo has the answer/workaround, but sheesh, what a kludge.  Pity we can't go
the other way, putting the vias in a class, but they're not actually
components or pads, so that doesn't work.

I can't figure out *why* vias connecting to polys wouldn't work.  Either
it's an oversight by Altium, or it's deliberate.

-- 
Dean Carpenter
deano at areyes com
94TT :)
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 6:26 AM
Subject: Re: [PEDA] Weird - via won't join GND polygons


> In a message dated 2005-03-09 08:54:03 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>
> > Checked the netlist.  It's clean - only one GND net.  Just for the hey
of
> > it, I did a "Clear all nets", then re-updated the pcb from the
schematics.
> > The polygons show up as NoNet, so I changed them to GND, and let them
> > rebuild.  Then dropped a via in an empty space connecting top and bottom
> > polys.  Rebuilt them ...
> >
> > Still bloody isolated.  AND it still shows a ratsnest line to the
nearest
> > GND pad ...
> >
>
> Are you sure your polygons are on a copper layer? If you've somehow gotten
> them on a mech layer or overlay, etc, that would explain the behavior
you're
> seeing. I've been bitten this way in 99SE, because placing a polygon
doesn't
> automatically place it on the current layer - the layer is a separate
setting
> within the polygon function.
>
> Steve Hendrix
>
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