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On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 03:52:22AM -0400, Enoch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In order to get ground / power plane on the connection (top/bottom)
> layers of a 2 layer pcb, we use the RECT and POLY area coverage. The
> system leaves residues of "copper" around pads, lines and pins, that are
> not connected to anything and really look bad.
> 
> How can we get rid of them without doing it on the output gerber files?

I bet the polygon showing the problem has the "fullpoly" attribute.
Unfortunately, there is no way to change this flag in PCB: you can
set it for newly created polygons (New polygons are full one).

For an existing polygon, you have to find the polygon in the file
(for large planes it's fairly easy) and remove the flag.

However, the most serious problem IMHO is that the OpenGl interface
shows all polygons as if they did not have the "fullpoly" attribute.
(I had a look at the code, but got lost).

	Gabriel

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