At 09:03 AM 11/30/01 -0500, Jenkins, Charlie wrote: >Why would I want to keep extra copper where it's not wanted? Electrically I >might want the copper to separate sensitive areas of a board where a gnd net >was missing. For my purposes I like to keep as much copper on board as >possible. One because it makes my etchant last longer and two because if I >route the prototype and keep as much copper on the board as I can I get to >control the clearances with rules and speed up the routers performance when >it rubs out the bare areas of the board. > >I use the fill instead of the track because it's easier find and highlight >under the mess of tracks that get poured when you lay down a polygon. I turn >on polygon draft and they pop out. > >If you haven't guessed I do mostly prototype work for my clients. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 10:29 PM >To: Protel EDA Forum >Subject: Re: [PEDA] SV: Phatom polygons another tip > > >At 01:46 PM 11/29/01 -0500, Jenkins, Charlie wrote: > >I find that after the polygon pours and dead copper is removed, there are > >areas that I would like to keep the copper that was removed because no > >connection to a net could be made. > >Why? > > > In those cases I use a net "seed" like a > >via or little fill patch with a net assigned to it. I place the patch and > >repour. Use pour over same net and the patch will be covered by a polygon >of > >the same net as assigned to the seed via or patch. > >Yes, this will do it. A piece of free track assigned to the polygon's net >also accomplishes the same purpose. A fast way to create that track is to >draw it from anything connected the the net, then pick it up and move it. >Or, of course, one can just edit the net field in the primitive's edit >dialog. > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Abdulrahman Lomax >Easthampton, Massachusetts USA
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