I think the problem is simply that the board is completely routed. By
deleting the ground plane, the board is no longer complete. The point to be
made is that Eagle does indeed pour copper into its polygons. Just
experimenting on a completed board, lacking the faith of having seen it work
even once, it looks as useless as day old toast. If you're adding a ground
plane, you need to rip out the ground traces anyway for it to make sense.
And then it works nicely.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Evan Dudzik" <evandude@...>
To: <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Copper pours with Eagle
> That's odd... because I just took a fully routed design I had, removed the
> pour polygon, placed a new one, and hit ratsnest, and it did the pour. it
> did say "nothing to do!" at the bottom...
>
> did you enable orphans? on the few occasions eagle has given me some
> trouble about doing a pour, enabling orphans seemed to fix it.
>
> -Evan
>
> On 11/24/05, Mike Young <mikewhy@...> wrote:
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Evan Dudzik" <evandude@...>
>> >
>> > I have never had any trouble doing a copper pour after routing in
>> eagle...
>> > just lay down the polygon, and hit the ratsnest button to have it carve
>> > the
>> > traces... I just tried it again (to make sure I wasn't crazy) and it
>> does
>> > indeed work...
>>
>> Yup. A completely routed board, though, has an empty ratsnest list.
>> RATSNEST
>> complains/reports happily that there's "NOTHING TO DO!", and leaves the
>> new
>> POLYGON as an outline. I'm sure it's a feature, but don't understand
>> things
>> well enough to say what it's for.
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