Polygon trouble (4.16r2)

Karl Lautman wrote:

>In the attached file I've created two polygons on the bottom layer on the

>lower half of the board.  The upper polygon consists of three regions: a

>horizontal one with two fingers extending from its bottom edge.  I've named

>all the polygons GND (the same as my GND net) and was asked if I wanted to

>connect them to GND, to which I said yes.  Both polygons are connected to a

>ground trace with a single wire.  My problem is that only the horizontal

>region displays as filled in Eagle, and outputs to the gerber for the

>bottom layer.  The three other polygons don't display as filled, and don't

>appear in the gerber.  What am I dong wrong?  Thanks.

this polygons don't have actual connections (pad, via, track) to the

related signal.

But you can change their orphant flag to on (change orphans on) to get

them filled without connection.

By the way, the small stub at (1,8 0,75) to (1,8 0,8) is not connected

to the gnd net and therefor does not take care of connecting the lower

polygon.

It also causes an overlap DRC error (3 actually).

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Lorenz

Karl Lautman wrote:

>In the attached file I've created two polygons on the bottom layer on the

>lower half of the board.  The upper polygon consists of three regions: a

>horizontal one with two fingers extending from its bottom edge.  I've named

>all the polygons GND (the same as my GND net) and was asked if I wanted to

>connect them to GND, to which I said yes.  Both polygons are connected to a

>ground trace with a single wire.  My problem is that only the horizontal

>region displays as filled in Eagle, and outputs to the gerber for the

>bottom layer.  The three other polygons don't display as filled, and don't

>appear in the gerber.  What am I dong wrong?  Thanks.

this polygons don't have actual connections (pad, via, track) to the

related signal.

But you can change their orphant flag to on (change orphans on) to get

them filled without connection.

By the way, the small stub at (1,8 0,75) to (1,8 0,8) is not connected

to the gnd net and therefor does not take care of connecting the lower

polygon.

It also causes an overlap DRC error (3 actually).

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Lorenz

Thanks, Lorenz.  I finally got things to work, but I'm not sure what I did

differently than I did originally.  I guess I'm wondering what the proper

way is to connect a polygon to a signal.  E.g., if I want to create a small

ground plane, I draw the outline with the polygon tool and name it GND (if

that's the name of all my ground signals).  Don't I still need to connect

the polygon to a GND signal somewhere?  I've been doing that by drawing a

small bridge using the wire tool and eventually it works, but I figure it

should work the first time unless there's some other step I'm skipping.

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