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Ground plane: pad does not connect to it

Nicolas S
Nicolas S over 4 years ago

Hi, 

Another newbie question. I run OrCAD PCB Designer Standard V17.4. 

I've created a part in Capture : 

Nothing fancy here. And as you can see, I have pin 16 attached to GND. 

One in PCB Editor, I placed evertything then pour a ground plane (dynamic) and assigned it to GND net. 

As you can see, most of my parts got their ground connections made to the pour. For a reason I cannot understand, a few parts did not get connected to the ground pour. As you see, the parts on the right got connected automatically but not the part I created and some others (more on that:see below). 

The part I created as pin 16 as a power pin : 

I also created a specific padstack for this part with the following parameters : 

I also have a few other components that did not connect automatically to the ground plane. I haven't inspect all of them yet, but it looks like those are the parts I've created using Ultra-Librarian. I worked-around this by creating a static copper shape attached to GND around the pad. Still, I would like to undestand why is that behavior. 

Many thanks

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  • steve
    steve over 4 years ago

    This is controlled by Shape Parameters. Go to Shape - Global Dynamic Parameters, then the Thermal Relief tabs. For each pin type you have a type of connection (Dynamic, Orthagonal etc) and a min and max number of connections, In these instances try reducing the minimum connects to 1 and see if that helps. The others are probably because the shape MUST cross the origin of the pad (pin) to make a connection. This is usually the centre of the pin.

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  • Nicolas S
    Nicolas S over 4 years ago in reply to steve

    Steve, 

    Thanks for the reply. It worked perfectly !

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