One way to find a non plated hole is to unplate one known hole, then do a global search and select for any pad with the plated attrubute = Same using your pad as a reference. That will highlight all non-plated holes. If you then Zoom-Selected, you can see if more than your one hole is non-plated.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Jenkins, Charlie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002 12:37 PM > To: 'Protel EDA Forum' > Subject: Re: [PEDA] 100% complete?????? > > > An unplated hole will give you an incomplete net. This is usaually not > fatal as you get all your connection holes plated anyway. I tried several > ways to locate the non-plated items with varying degrees of success. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert M. Wolfe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002 3:08 PM > To: Protel EDA Forum > Subject: [PEDA] 100% complete?????? > > > Hello All, > Anybody run into the Reports vs DRC with respect to 100% complete > connections being different. > I ran DRC for uncomplete net and it is clean 100% connections. > It is a 6 layer card with a split gnd plane, vcc plane not split and there > are many polygon plane > areas also one layer is mostly polygon planes. I di da very carefull look > there but nothing seems to > be in error. I also put system in single layer mode and viewed up > each layer > to hope to spot a netline, > nothing so far. > If I run the report for connection status I get 1 incomplete net, in this > report it does not tell you the net > that is not connected, unfortunately. > So anybbody got any suggestions as to how to determine if the board is > done?? > I did a netlist output from PCB of connected copper, and compared > it to the > schematic output netlist and they match 100%. > I also checked for parts off board area by selecting all outside area and > the move slected up and into vieable area and no luck, > I also check Pick and Place for any negative Y coordinates none. > Is there anywhere else to verify 100% completion? > TIA > Bob Wolfe > > ************************************************************************ > * Tracking #: 4D338C446613E74F95209FAD46F9CA2AAB03D873 > * > ************************************************************************ > > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
