Making radial copper areas in Ultiboard

I am trying to make a circular PCB with radial copper ring areas. My best effort has been to make an octagonal looking circle, but this is not acceptable. Can a circular / radial copper area be made in Ultiboard? Thank you very much for you help. Tod
Solved!
Go to Solution.

1. Select Copper Top (Copper Bottom)
2. Place>>Shape>>Circle
3. Edit>>Selection Filter>>Enable Selecting Traces
4. Click on circle
5. Design>>Shape to Area

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Press the CTRL key while you move the mouse pointer on top of the pad and at the end of the pop-up label you'll see to which net it is assigned, now do the same to the Copper Area just to confirm that it is indeed assign to that net as well. If both are the same net it should connect without voiding.
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Just had a strange thing on a new design...
I'm using version 10.01 Ultiboard...
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I've seen this export behavior, my fix was in the export > gerber properties : under options. I made sure I had all the option off except "allow Non-convex polygons" only check. I saw what you described if I had "merge polygons (slow)" checked.....so make sure it is UNCHECKED. That solved the problem for me
Message Edited by kittmaster on 08-29-2008 10:03 AM
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I am trying to modify an existing board that has complex copper areas (ground planes) on top and bottom.
When I try to move or place a component the program virtually halts, allowing only spastic jerky component movement while it redraws the copper areas.
How can I disable redraw of the copper areas without deleting them (I can do this in other PCB layout programs but I can't find a way in Ultiboard)?
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Solved!
Go to Solution.

WRONG!!!!!!!!
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Copper text.jpg ‏24 KB
what I want.jpg ‏22 KB

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I want to design nice sharp angled copper pour areas normally at 45,90 or 135 degrees, as shown in attached image.
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One method to do this is to draw a copper area outline whose angel is 45°/135° first and then draw the polygon over the tracks.
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