You would think that the clearance of the higher priority pour would be used, but it is not. What gets drawn is an island with a clearance of 10 mil. Fully contained inside it, is a copper pour of priority 0 with a clearance of 40 mil connected to +40V. The clearance around the copper pours appear to be driven by the pour with the lower priority.įor example, imagine a large copper pour connected to ground with priority of 1 and a clearance of 10mil. I am having problems setting up copper pour clearances. Now you can generate a new PCB using the new schematic. Here's an alternate method.ġ) Launch the Schematic Editor and open the original schematic.Ģ) Left-click on the tab of the Main schematic sheet, select all objects ( Ctrl + A) and delete them by pressing the key.ģ) Delete all of the unwanted hierarchical sheets: right-click on each sheet tab, select Delete in the pop-up menu and click on Yes in the Confirm dialog window.Ĥ) Right-click on the tab of the one remaining hierarchical sheet, select Sheet Type in the pop-up menu and choose Normal in the fly-out menu.ĥ) Right-click on the tab of the original Main sheet (the empty one) and select Delete in the pop-up menu.Ħ) Rename the newly converted sheet if needed (right-click on its tab, select Rename, etc.), make sure to remove all hierarchy connectors and clean things up.ħ) In the Main Menu click on File and select Save As in the drop-down menu.Ĩ) In the Save As dialog window enter a new file name, navigate to the desired folder and click on the button. Īfter this I could convert the battery pack schematic to a PCB, albeit with its own set of problems
Then I had to change the 'battery pack' sheet type to 'normal', and then I had to delete the 'main' page. Then I had to copy the 'battery pack' and 'PB1000' sub and sub-sub pages over to the sub-pages in the new schematic. OK, I was able to get the battery pack sub-page copied over to a new schematic file, but it was a major PITA! First I had to create two sub-pages in the new, blank schematic, with the 'hierarchy' flag set.
I have attached the schematic if anyone wants to take a look Unfortunately, when I do a Ctrl-A to copy the schematic, then open a new schematic file and do a Ctrl-V, I get an error message because this sub-page references another page as a sub-sub block - argh!! So, I thought that I would copy the sub-page to a new schematic and do it as a stand-alone. Now I want to create a PCB of just one of the sub-pages (the battery pack), NOT the whole thing how do I go about this? If I simply select 'Convert to PCB', I get a bunch of garbage which makes no sense. All the sub-pages have the 'heirarchy' sheet type selected. I created a hierarchical schematic with a main page, and then several sub-pages.