X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Virus-Scanned: OK X-Virus-Scanned: OK Message-ID: <4FCE7A57.1010107@studiofeed.com> Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:29:59 -0400 From: Tim van Boxtel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: geda-user Subject: [geda-user] Clearance between polygons on same layer group Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Hello, I am having some simple issues with polygons and clearances. I have searched through the wiki and tried some of the suggestions there, but nothing has resulted in what I want. Hopefully someone here can help. On one layer group, I have the component layer, a component-ground layer, and the component-side layer on group 1 of my project. I wish to create a polygon on the component layer to route some power traces, as well as a large rectangular ground plane on the same physical layer, and connect some ground traces to the plane. This is a common task on 2-layer boards (my board is more than 2 layers) I started by first creating the component-ground polygon. When I routed traces on the component layer, the trace was drawn with proper clearances on all sides. When I made my power polygon (component layer), the ground plane completely covers it up! I have tried several iterations of which gets drawn first, as well as "New Lines Fill Polygons" setting, and the Shift-J join command, but nothing comes out how I would like. Is there any workflow I should be adhering to to create a top side ground plane that covers everywhere except where other traces and polygons of different layers are located? Thanks in advance for any tips -- Kind Regards, Tim van Boxtel Director of Technology Studiofeed 260 Spadina Ave. Unit 305 Toronto, ON M5T 2E4 (647) 235-3981