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erik_gtd

Netherlands
10 Posts

Posted - 18 Nov 2013 : 14:21:03

In my design, I have a large amount copper pour areas.

Is there a possibility to update or re-pour all areas at once?

Now I have to select each area and manually clear and pour copper.

I cannot find this option in one of the menu's, but maybe I overlooking it...

Any ideas?

edrees

United Kingdom
779 Posts

Posted - 18 Nov 2013 : 14:35:31

Eric, you have to be aware of potential mis-pours in EPC.

Keeping separate pour areas is a good thing, at least this way you can choose the order in which the pours occur!

nigle

United Kingdom
45 Posts

Posted - 18 Nov 2013 : 14:48:38

It should be possible to do this by adding the pours to a group. Do a Select Group and then pour the copper.

Unless you are using V17, in which groups are massively broken.

Iain Wilkie

United Kingdom
1016 Posts

Posted - 18 Nov 2013 : 20:08:09

Make sure you have no pour areas selected, and click the pour button. If they are on different nets the net dialogue box will say "different"

Click OK and hey presto all pours will be done one after the other. I use this ALL the time and its a great feature. Also if you click unpour button with NO pour area selected it will unpour ALL.

If pouring in same layer with embedded areas remember you may have to set a pour order value for each pour area (in the properties).

Iain

erik_gtd

Netherlands
10 Posts

Posted - 19 Nov 2013 : 06:32:28

Thanks!

I didn't know that using Pour without any selected areas was possible, but this answers my question (altough I am aware that mis-pours sometime do happen, but my copper areas don't overlap, so in this case it should be ok).

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