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Bob M

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.

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  • Any PCB Editor looks after the Etch layers automatically, if the Cross Section gets changed after Artwork generation, there may be some missing Etch Films, that is what the button is about, since you likely have not changed the board cross-section, the button remains disabled. You, the user, are going to need to create the "other" Film Control records to generate the required Gerber output from the data that you have defined. Refer to this document on Preparing Manufacturing Data, algroman.pdf in the doc\algroman directory of the installation. You probably want to ensure that the Shape>Void Controls and Manufacture>Artwork parameters are both set to RS274X
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  • Any PCB Editor looks after the Etch layers automatically, if the Cross Section gets changed after Artwork generation, there may be some missing Etch Films, that is what the button is about, since you likely have not changed the board cross-section, the button remains disabled. You, the user, are going to need to create the "other" Film Control records to generate the required Gerber output from the data that you have defined. Refer to this document on Preparing Manufacturing Data, algroman.pdf in the doc\algroman directory of the installation. You probably want to ensure that the Shape>Void Controls and Manufacture>Artwork parameters are both set to RS274X
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