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Voids areas on plane that won't go away

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In the attcahed picture I have some void areas in the gnd plane that I can not get rid of. I have tried turning all colors on to see if there was somthing hiding there, but nothing shows up. Screen redraws and closing / re-opening board file have no effect.

What are these mysterious areas and how do I get rid of them?

Tom

  • Answering my own question. Found put that these shapes are "voids" and going to Shape - Manaul Void/Cavity - Delete allows me to select and delete each one.

    This was an area where we changed the connector type. I suppose these voids were left overs from something. I surely didn't put them in...........

    Hopefully this is the last problem for the day............

     Tom

  • You may have had some isolated (unassigned) copper shapes with the previous connector type and used Shape>Delete Islands to get rid of them. Shape>Delete Islands draws manual voids for the isolated shapes to remove them.

  • Once again OM, you are right on target. I didn't think of that. The previous part had 2mm lead spacing and there were islands between the pins that I deleted.  This must have been left over artifacts from that island removal.

    I have to say though, you'd think the software would take care of them. For that matter, you'd think it wouldn't leave islands in the first place.

    Have a great weekend!

    Tom

  •  You can also try this:

     close all layers

    open only "boundary" for that layer

    then delete the shape

    then update your plane

    then those voids would be gone for sure,

     

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