John,
Thank you so much. That worked. This user group is awesome.
Michael Badillo
From: John A. Ross [Design] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2003/09/30 Tue PM 12:17:14 EDT
To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PEDA] creating power planes
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Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 3:55 PM
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Subject: [PEDA] creating power planes
I am working on a four layer board and I have been unable to
figure out how to get the internal ground and power planes to
link up correclty with the outer layers. The user's guide
says (p594) that you go to the layer stack manager, double
click on the layer, and choose the net you wish to assign to
the layer. The drop down list does not appear.
The supplement to the users guide says that the drop down
list will not appear until the design is transferred to the
PCB. I've done an ERC and selected the update PCB option,
but neither has given me the options I need in the PCB editor.
Does anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong?
Michael
Use D,k shortcuts to the layer stack manager
Click on the middle of the layer stack up image to focus the point for
the plane insertion.
Click add plane
You will get some additional text now like 'InternalPlane1 [[no net]]
with an arrow pointing to the middle of the layer stack.
If you double click on the InternalPlane1 [[no net]] text you will get
a dialogue box which has 3 fields, the bottom one being Net name.
Adding a plane is not the same as adding a layer, AFAIK you can only
assign nets to plane layers, if you dbl click a layer name line
MidLayer1 then you will only have 2 options in the dialogue box, the
Net name box is not there.
Hope this helps
John
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