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Issue with power planes when exporting ODB++ from BRD

EA202507041851 1 month ago

Hello guys,

Recently I noticed the following when I tried to export the ODB from a .brd file. The ODB file exported seems to be good, however there are some issues in power planes such as GND. The outside of the design appears as a power plane but the inside is now empty, the vias are now filled, i.e the power planes are inverted. I checked the .brd but the information looks good. I have followed the same steps as always but this is the first time I encounter that issue.

This is an example, the right side is the outside of the design, however it is in red instead of being black. In the other hand, the left side should be in red but only the vias are in red.

Thanks in advance for your help.

0 Elecguy 1 month ago

what versions (and hotfix) of the tools and ODB are you using? I know there are some incompatibility in terms of what's supported by ODB depending on which tool you're at and what version you're using
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0 EA202507041851 1 month ago in reply to Elecguy

Hello Elecguy,
In another post I made, a guy name Eric told me that to fix this issue I had to toggle "Negative" to "Positive" in Plot Mode option in the Artwork tab, this partially helped me, however I new issue appeared, there is "missing information" in the exported ODB, for example the vias no longer appear as holes as can be seen in the following screenshots:
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