Using Altium v16.1.12
When making a ground pour, I have all my rules set to "Direct Connect" and my polygon pour settings are set to "Pour Over Same Net Objects":
When a Gerber export is done, I notice that ground vias ( which I've connected the ground pour to, by net ) have tiny little slivers around them. These slivers are apparent in Altiums CamTastic view as well as any other external Gerber viewer ( such as gerbv ). For example, in the image below, there's a non-GND via all the way on the right side of the image, and directly to the left of this is a via on GND. There are slivers of copper missing from around the via periphery:
- Does anybody have an idea as to the source of these missing copper slivers and how to fill them in?
- Do PCB manufacturers already know how to handle this kind of malformed gerber data and if so, is it really a problem
that requires fixing?