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How to display top and bottom pads through inner layers?

Farco

Hello,

Whenever I display inner layers, the pads in top and bottom layers cannot be seen. How can I fix this?

Regards.

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    Hi,

    It looks like Layer GND1 is a Negative Plane so you are seeing the Anti-Pad and Thermal openings in the Shape, which are blocking out the Top and Bottom Pads.

    If you disable Thermal pads under Design Parameters > Display Tab (Setup > Design Parameters) you will see Top and Bottom pads again.  I normally enable Thermal Pads when I am reviewing Negative Planes only and leave it off most of the time.

    Hope this helps,
    Mike Catrambone

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    Hi,

    It looks like Layer GND1 is a Negative Plane so you are seeing the Anti-Pad and Thermal openings in the Shape, which are blocking out the Top and Bottom Pads.

    If you disable Thermal pads under Design Parameters > Display Tab (Setup > Design Parameters) you will see Top and Bottom pads again.  I normally enable Thermal Pads when I am reviewing Negative Planes only and leave it off most of the time.

    Hope this helps,
    Mike Catrambone

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