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command "Copy to layers..." - unpleasant behaviour

Manfred1

As Orcad PCB Designer keeps complaining about board outline being in layer Geometry / Board geometry / Outline instead of Geometry / Board geometry / Design_Outline, I chose to copy the shape from the former to the later. This can be done in Shape edit mode with Shapes on and Other segs off in the Find filter, via context menu. At my first tries, the only result was the error message Copy to BOARD GEOMETRY/DESIGN_OUTLINE failed.

After a while, I found out, that the layer to be copied to, must be empty. The behaviour of Orcad PCB designer is very unfortunate in that case (too). Instead of giving a warning and asking, if the layer should be overwriten, a meaningless error message is presented.

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