Protel 99SE: How to create a curved copper fill?

[Rodo]

Hi all,

I'm an Orcad user but my new job has Protel 99SE. I've been able to pick up
most of the stuff from the handbook and online help but this copper pour (or
fill zone) it driving me nuts. I can make the polygon with 90 degree corners
but I want to wrap it around a pad with a curve and I just can't. In Orcad I
would press "A" (for arch) while drawing it and done. But ... this is Protel
.... some stuff is pretty easy to handle but there is always some little
quirk. Anyhow... any help creating the curved polygon would be mostly
appreciated.

Thanks

 

[D from BC]

Hi all,

I'm an Orcad user but my new job has Protel 99SE. I've been able to pick up
most of the stuff from the handbook and online help but this copper pour (or
fill zone) it driving me nuts. I can make the polygon with 90 degree corners
but I want to wrap it around a pad with a curve and I just can't. In Orcad I
would press "A" (for arch) while drawing it and done. But ... this is Protel
... some stuff is pretty easy to handle but there is always some little
quirk. Anyhow... any help creating the curved polygon would be mostly
appreciated.

Thanks

I don't have a direct answer but I have a related experience..
One time I resorted to making PCB layouts in, of all things, Corel
Draw 11.
Yup...In Corel, you get any shape you want unfortunately without all
the features found in PCB apps.

One step above that is converting and importing the PCB layout file
into Corel for 'fancy graphics'. But after that, it's no returning
that file to the PCB layout program.


D from BC

 

[TT_Man]

Hi all,

I'm an Orcad user but my new job has Protel 99SE. I've been able to pick
up most of the stuff from the handbook and online help but this copper
pour (or fill zone) it driving me nuts. I can make the polygon with 90
degree corners but I want to wrap it around a pad with a curve and I just
can't. In Orcad I would press "A" (for arch) while drawing it and done.
But ... this is Protel ... some stuff is pretty easy to handle but there
is always some little quirk. Anyhow... any help creating the curved
polygon would be mostly appreciated.

Thanks

There is an option when you select polygon plane, to use 'arcs'

 

[nospam]

Hi all,

I'm an Orcad user but my new job has Protel 99SE. I've been able to pick up
most of the stuff from the handbook and online help but this copper pour (or
fill zone) it driving me nuts. I can make the polygon with 90 degree corners
but I want to wrap it around a pad with a curve and I just can't.

In P99SE copper pours are *pours*, define a polygon with straight lines and
it fills the enclosed area leaving appropriate clearances to anything that
was already there.

If you want a particular shape in copper create it with track, arcs,
rectangular fills. You might have to assign nets to the primitives to keep
rule checking happy.

If you really want a poured fill with some circular edges then try placing
arc segments to limit the pour then remove them and remember not to re-pour
the polygon.

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[Rodo]

Yes and it is checked. But when I draw the polygon around a pad...well is
not really "around"...I place it squared. It does not automatically round
the edge around the pad ... so ... how do I get that ?

Thanks

 

[Rene Tschaggelar]

Hi all,

I'm an Orcad user but my new job has Protel 99SE. I've been able to pick up
most of the stuff from the handbook and online help but this copper pour (or
fill zone) it driving me nuts. I can make the polygon with 90 degree corners
but I want to wrap it around a pad with a curve and I just can't. In Orcad I
would press "A" (for arch) while drawing it and done. But ... this is Protel
... some stuff is pretty easy to handle but there is always some little
quirk. Anyhow... any help creating the curved polygon would be mostly
appreciated.

As new user you should subscribe to the listserver :

http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com

They also have archives.

Rene