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Copper Pours

Brian Rocks
Brian Rocks over 10 years ago

I am still a noob when it comes to the PCB portion of Orcad.  I have a 4 layer board and am ready to make the pours for the ground/power planes.  How is this done properly?  I have done:

  1. set a "keep in" rectangle inset in from the board outline.
  2. Add: Frectangle on the ground layer
  3. Select the "0" net


However, when I do this, all of my through holes give me a DRC error: Thru Pin to Shape Spacing

I also get an error for the keep in layer: Shape to Route Keepin Spacing

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