Sorry for the low level post but I am a new OrCAD user and it's a very difficult tool to come up to speed on. I'm highly proficient in Altium and PADS but I can't believe how hard they make it to use this tool. Here are my current issues:
1) In putting down a polygon I'm expecting to see thermal relief connections to pads of the same nets, instead of thermal relief I only see the pads being connected to the net.
2) I created gerbers at Manufacture>Artwork>Create Artwork but all I get is Top, Bottom and Inner1 (GND) layers, no Silkscreen, Soldermask, Solderpaste, Drill Drawing or Board Outline.
3) I have about 200 vias assigned to GND and I should certainly expect to see thermal relief connections to the GND layer for them but I don't.
These things are probably easy for everyone but tediously difficult to learn for new users and I gotta send out gerbers. Is there anyone willing to help?
Thanks in advance.
Thank you for the input, it's really helpful.
The only part of the above is about the artwork. I'm not sure if it matters that I'm using PCB Deigner 16.6 but in Artwork the tab is named Create Missing Films and it's greyed out. So in Display>Color/Visibility I have everything enabled and yet I can't seem to create the other films. Any idea why?