Does anyone know how the heck to export cam files through altium designer such that copper pours don’t cover an entire layer?
For example when I do a copper pour over one layer and tie it to a ground net in the PCB editor everything seems fine (the pour dodges all different net objects). If I then export gerber files to camtastic, again all looks good. But when I export from the camtastic file, the layer with the copper pour suddenly shows 100% copper coverage over all nets! (while all other exported layers are fine).
Has anyone come across this before? Is there something painfully obvious I’m missing out?
Mikael:
Does anyone know how the heck to export cam files through altium designer such that copper pours don’t cover an entire layer?
For example when I do a copper pour over one layer and tie it to a ground net in the PCB editor everything seems fine (the pour dodges all different net objects). If I then export gerber files to camtastic, again all looks good. But when I export from the camtastic file, the layer with the copper pour suddenly shows 100% copper coverage over all nets! (while all other exported layers are fine).
Has anyone come across this before? Is there something painfully obvious I’m missing out?
I have never had this problem. I often use polygon pours or even plane layers and have never had a problem with either.
However, your wording is… odd. So when you say export gerber files to camtastic - you just mean generate gerber files, yes? But what are you talking about with regards to exporting from the camtastic file? When you generate the gerbers the first time I would expect that to be the only thing you would need to do (it’s all I ever need to do) - so I’m a bit confused by your wording.
By the way - there is a very useful Altium support forum.
Mikael:
Does anyone know how the heck to export cam files through altium designer such that copper pours don’t cover an entire layer?
For example when I do a copper pour over one layer and tie it to a ground net in the PCB editor everything seems fine (the pour dodges all different net objects). If I then export gerber files to camtastic, again all looks good. But when I export from the camtastic file, the layer with the copper pour suddenly shows 100% copper coverage over all nets! (while all other exported layers are fine).
Has anyone come across this before? Is there something painfully obvious I’m missing out?
I have never had this problem. I often use polygon pours or even plane layers and have never had a problem with either.
However, your wording is… odd. So when you say export gerber files to camtastic - you just mean generate gerber files, yes? But what are you talking about with regards to exporting from the camtastic file? When you generate the gerbers the first time I would expect that to be the only thing you would need to do (it’s all I ever need to do) - so I’m a bit confused by your wording.
By the way - there is a very useful Altium support forum.
Thanks NleahciM for your reply, yes you are correct in interpreting my lazy language (generate gerber > camtastic file showing > export gerbers).
After some more fluffing about, I finally solved the problem. It was the check box “Separate Composite layers to individual Files” being checked and not the “Convert Polygons to Vector Fill (Line Strokes)” box in the export gerber options box. I could swear I had messed with these several times before… Anyhow It works now!