Copper Pour (polygon) Management System

A standard design technique on today’s dense, high-speed boards is to use all spare board space as reference planes, filling them with regions of solid copper. These regions of copper, known as copper pours, are created by placing polygons. It is not uncommon for a multi-layer board design to include 50 or more polygons.

The new Polygon Manager provides a powerful control center for reviewing and managing all of the polygons on a board. The Polygon Manager is launched from the Tools » Polygon Pours submenu. The Polygon Manager not only provides a high-level view of all polygons on the entire board, with it you can:

• Name and rename each polygon.
• Set the pour order of polygons.
• Perform actions on selected polygons, such as repour or shelve (hide from display and DRC).
• Add and scope design rules for selected polygons.