On Jan 21, 2010, at 1:16 PM, Stefan Trethan wrote:
> Now it points to 15. How to Create Power Planes, for Example for GND?
> That explains the remove islands option, which is good but does not
> solve the problem in this particular case, at least on it's own.
That’s a useful nugget to have tucked away, but it still doesn’t help
in this case. The island is made up of a pad and a section of ground
plane on the bottom layer, but that pad is for a socket, and I can’t
access the pin for the socket on the ∗top∗ layer. If the hole were
plated, I wouldn’t have the island.
> The restrict area could work well for Brian because it would prevent
> the powerplane and any trace from connecting and leaving an island.
> Since Brian doesn't need the pads itself to go away that would seem
> like a good solution. Put a top restrict circle on each pad in the
> library for the parts you can't solder and you should be good to go.
This is the approach I’m going to try, now.
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