PADS: Plane keeps coming back after a flood

[Pack34]

This is an odd issue. I'm redoing the layout on a board and the necessary ground plane changed. I selected the shape and deleted it but every time I go into the Pour Manager and select "Flood All" it comes back.

Any ideas?

[Pack34]

Weird, maybe it was a corrupted file after a PADS 9.2 > 9.5 > 9.2 conversion? Not insurmountable to go back to an older rev and then add in the new changes.

[AndersJ]

Maybe you have two or more identical copies of the same shape.
You delete one, not realizing there is one more.
Then you flood the remaining one.

[pcbguy1927]

Type "PO" to turn the flood shape into an outline and then delete the outline.
John

[T3sl4co1l]

Yeah, the pour and its outline is a separate object from the shape which produced it.  It's weird like that.

Tim

[dmills]

That distinction makes for some rather trying 'Mentor magic moments' upon occasion, together with the little detail that in spite of setting the appropriate options my copy does not seem willing to save a file with all the pours/floods/hatches actually in place....

All cad systems suck in their own special ways.

Regards, Dan.

[Pack34]

Type "PO" to turn the flood shape into an outline and then delete the outline.
John

Well, I'll be... That did it. That's definitely going to be a command I'll remember. I've been hopping in and out of Layout after a fill to be able to see the traces again.

[pcbguy1927]

If you can't remember the command. The hatch/flood setting are available under TOOLS|OPTIONS|DRAFTING|HATCH AND FLOOD.

John W

[batteksystem]

This is an odd issue. I'm redoing the layout on a board and the necessary ground plane changed. I selected the shape and deleted it but every time I go into the Pour Manager and select "Flood All" it comes back.

Any ideas?

You need to find the outline but not the copper pour shape created by the outline.

[Fixup]

Try to type PO or SPO this should show only the outlines for the copper and floods. Then right button and select shapes or select all. Then you can select the outline and delete it.