Pour copper issue

David Van Balen

• February 12, 2017 11:48

Hi,

Here's another issue with the Pour Copper tool:  For a certain timle, i work on a design, and the Pour Copper works for the best.  And now, all of a sudden, it doesn't work anymore: Copper is not poured anymore and I get the message that there's no area large enough to retain the poured copper. 

  I didn't change the parameters (especially not the Min Copper Area).  At first I worked with a 2 mm², but since I received this message, I tried with 1 mm², just as a wild guess, but it did not work either.

This is not a layer issue (as reported before): My pour area is on the bottom layer, which is visible, and the net is a classical GND.

Any clue ?

Thanks for the help

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  David Van Balen

  • February 12, 2017 11:55

  Just adding I'm working with version 8, and that there are 5 (five) boards in my design, each of which having its own pour area on bottom copper layer and all linked to the GND net

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  Boss .

  • February 12, 2017 18:09

  Post an image showing the layer and the gnd connection, perhaps it cannot connect.

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  David Van Balen

  • February 15, 2017 17:13

  Sorry for the delay.  I worked around the problem by manually placing copper shapes to mimic a poured area.  What a pain....

  Anyway, the problem remains the same on my top layer.  Here's the board, with GND network highlighted (blue).   Same parameters as above and same result.  The board size is 2.95" x 1.60"

  

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