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How to fix this power plane discrepancy when exporting odb++ from brd

EA202507041851 1 month ago

Hello,

I have the following issue and would be really grateful if you can help me. Recently I noticed that all power planes in the ODB are wrongly exported, it is as if the design is inverted. As can be seen in the following screenshots:
.brd:

exported odb:

This happens in all power planes (it doesnt matter if the plane is GND or VCC, for example). The rest of the planes in the design are exported perfectly.
This is the first time I encounter this issue and dont know how to fix it.

0 Eric Jordan 1 month ago

In your artwork setup, there is an option to output the film as negative. This is checked automatically if you have defined your layer as a plane in your stackup.

Uncheck the negative checkbox and that should fix it.
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0 EA202507041851 1 month ago in reply to Eric Jordan

Hello Eric,

Thanks for your help. I tried the steps you mentioned and it fix the problem, but now some information is "lost". For example the vias do not longer appear. Do you know the reason for this?
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0 KD202502275710 1 month ago in reply to Eric Jordan

Good one
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0 Eric Jordan 1 month ago in reply to EA202507041851

Can you send me a screenshot? I don't think I've seen that before.
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0 EA202507041851 1 month ago in reply to Eric Jordan

In the first screenshot you can see the second layer (which is a GND layer) on PCB editor and in the second screenshot you can see the ODB exported after following the steps you gave me:

As you can see all the vias do not appear as holes in the exported ODB.
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