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Offline zphazeTopic starter

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Polygon pours inside room?
« on: March 18, 2020, 12:04:08 am »
Hi,

I'm doing a multi-channel design.
Basically I have 12 rooms that will repeat the exact same subcircuit on the PCB.

Now, I find rooms quite good at what I want them to do (being able to repeat a circuit).

But I wonder... if I use polygon pours inside a room (even inside the top layer), when I try to move the room, the room components/traces move except the newly created polygon pour!

Is there a way to associate a polygon pour to a room?
Because since this is a 4 layer board, I would like to be able to add ground pours (on layer two) and power pours (layer 3) to the room, so that I could just repeat this all over 12 times.
Is this possible or do rooms only apply to basic stuff like traces and components?

Thanks!
 

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Re: Polygon pours inside room?
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2020, 05:07:09 am »
You won't have a solid ground plane under everything?  Alarm bells ringing...

I do find it annoying when using polys for heatsinking and low inductance connections, though.  I don't know of anything offhand, perhaps the room and polys can be put into a union?  Or if rooms can't be unioned, maybe it's enough to union with something that does move with it, a component say.

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