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hippenstiel
Posted - 08 Aug 2016 : 12:12:48 I would like to suppress unconnected pads and vias in general, but I have some exemptions. For all inner layers, I have Suppress Unconnected Lands for pads and vias checked, but I have a certain pad style that I want to be exempted from this rule.
In chapter Technology - Edit Layer from the online help, it is stated that "[The pad] is suppressed only if there is no explicit pad shape assigned to that layer." So I added explicit pad shapes for every inner layer to that particular pad style. But the pads still vanish for unconnected layers.
How does this work?
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steve
Posted - 11 Aug 2016 : 11:36:56 Thank you for the explanation. The line "" in the Help for pad suppression simply should not be there, it was a function that was not implemented. However, the requirement for setting no suppression and then overriding certain pads as suppressed and visa-versa has been logged as a suggestion, although it would be complicated by the requirement to be different by layer.
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hippenstiel
Posted - 11 Aug 2016 : 09:18:08 Yes this is only relevant for component pads. It's the other way around. Generally I would like to have the suppression switched off for component pads but on the same pcb is a HV DC-Link, where suppression is beneficial to add a little bit of extra copper in the inner layers. Reading the online help, I thought unsupressing the other pads would be the way to go, but in the end I solved it, by just adjusting the padstack of the DC-Link capacitors. The capacitors are connected by templates in the inner layers, so they don't need annular rings.
steve
Posted - 10 Aug 2016 : 12:18:52 Can you explain what the technical requirement is for, regarding the need to un-suppress some pad lands on certain pad stacks rather than have them suppressed like all the others?
Also could you confirm that this is required on a component pad, not a via?
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hippenstiel
Posted - 08 Aug 2016 : 15:14:45 Thanks! Please let me know as soon as there is a fix for this.
steve
Posted - 08 Aug 2016 : 15:07:49 After investigation, this looks to be incorrect in its working, so I have logged it for review as 41035.
