highlight contiguous copper pour?

[vixo]

Is it possible to highlight contiguous areas of copper pour, including multiple layers linked by vias etc? I want to see how "well grounded" my copper pours are..

[Pseudobyte]

You can select a net in the PCB panel.

[vixo]

yes, that's slightly different to what i'm asking - I would like to be able to click on a section of the copper pour and it highlights everything it connects to - if for example there is a break in the ground pour, I would be able to see that only a small area of the pout is highlighted.

Sometimes I make very dense boards for non-critical applications where the ground is a copper pour snaked all through and around components and I have to use the DRC to see that it's connected, but it's actually quite a cumbersome way of doing it - it'd be much faster and easier if I could just highlight a section and see if it's connected

or is there is some other way of doing this? 

[Pseudobyte]

Unfortunately the way polygons behave when selected will prevent you from doing what you want. You could explode the polygon to free primitives and then I think any islands would become their own primitive. I have not tried this though. You would need to undo after you check it to get back to a polygon. (tools >> convert >> Explode polygon to free primitives)

The easier method is to make the polygons not pour islands and then look for the empty spots of your polygons and stitch them with vias/repour.

[g00se]

You can ctrl+click on the pour to highlight the whole net, similar to the above suggestion. Maybe that will help?