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Offline grimmjawTopic starter

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Internal power plane
« on: November 15, 2013, 07:45:09 am »
Hi,

I 'm still a noob with altium so br gentle  ;).

I have here a board with internal power plane, everything looks great.
Then I imported the gerber file, and get file attached.
I am expecting a solid plane, is this right?
Will the manufacturer do the copper pour?

Thank you   
 

Offline tszaboo

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Re: Internal power plane
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2013, 09:49:53 am »
The manufacturers who have more than 70 IQ will understand what you did on that plane. The extension of the gerbers are different to start with, G1, G2 for layers, GP1, GP2 for planes. It is common to put stackup legend on the PCB to number the layers, also, so they will see an inverted number, or mirrored number.
 

Offline grimmjawTopic starter

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Re: Internal power plane
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2013, 11:16:28 am »
I see..thanks   :)
 

Offline toohec

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Re: Internal power plane
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2013, 09:22:45 pm »
Just to help provide some additional clarity... Plane layers are created as negative layers so anything placed or shown on the plane layer (and the output gerbers as well) are areas where there are voids in the copper, and the blank/non-colored areas indicate areas where copper exists.  Soldermask layers are also negative layers, so all areas shown indicate areas where there is a void in the soldermask.

All other layers on the board are positive layers.
 


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