Chris- I had second thoughts. You may not be copying, but creating a polygon on a board having an existing polygon.
Protel gets confused if you create a polygon which lies within or overlaps another polygon (with a different net name) on the same layer. See Protel's Help topics. A Split Plane must be used in this case. In brief, the added Polygon is made using the Place Split Plane option; the polygons may NOT overlap, and an "inner" polygon must NOT be fully enclosed by the "outer" polygon. To created space for the "inner" polygon, the outer polygon may be edited to break its outline and move the resulting vertices, to create a hole in the outer polygon. Then you place the inner polygon in the hole. Hope this helps. Brian At 06:09 PM 11/2/02 +0200, you wrote: >Hi all, > >I am using Protel 99SE and cannot figure out why when I drop a polygon plane, which I choose to be GND it drops the >plane over all the pads and tracks in the area. >I have my netlist correct, I think I have set the polygon plane right by setting not to remove dead copper. >I still cannot get it working properly. >If I click on any of the tracks around there each one has it's separate net name so why should the >polygon cover them. > > >Regards > >Chris > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:proteledaforum@;techservinc.com * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:ForumAdministrator@;TechServInc.com * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/proteledaforum@;techservinc.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
