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Electronics => PCB/EDA/CAD => Altium Designer => Topic started by: knapik on August 07, 2017, 10:29:00 am
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I'm a bit stumped having a problem with polygon pours, I can see in the polygon manager that I have polygon pours, however I can't see or select them. How would I go about in deleting them as I currently don't want them?
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Just right click the polygon in the manager and hit delete.
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Make sure you have the right layer selected in order to be able to select/delete them (in the PCB editing view).
EDIT: if you are strictly talking about the Polygon Manager, if you can't see them it is likely that there are no vertices in the polygon pour!. I don't know your altium version, but in v16 the delete key does not seem to work. However, if you select the polygon pour in the upper list (make sure you click anywhere but the first column because it will edit the pour name), right click -> delete works.
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Hey, may be you have disabled the polygon layers, try hitting L and then make the polygons radio to FINAL.
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If they are shelved, they won't show up in the workspace.
You can also select polygons with the PCB Filter Panel and the query: IsPoly
Tim
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Yeah, I must not have tried right clicking and instead mashed the delete key, but that solved that problem. Thank you.
However, I'm unfortunately still having some issues. I've noticed that now, the interactive routing net lines aren't displaying for nets other than ground, and that if I were to actually create another ground plane polygon pour, I can't actually see it in the 2d view.
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Ratsnesting is a net property. You can find this under Design / Edit Nets, or by inspecting net objects. Nets aren't physical objects on the PCB, but you can still query, select and edit them with the Filter, List and Inspector panels. There's also the N shortcut (show/hide nets) which may be most helpful.
Tim
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Ah, yep, hiding and showing all connections seemed to do the trick for the rats nesting, thank you.