Component Rule Check
Created: July 28, 2015 | Updated: June 16, 2017
| Applies to versions: 15.1, 16.0, 16.1, 17.0 and 17.1
Now reading version 15.1. For the latest, read: Component Rule Check for version 21
The Component Rule Check Dialog.
Summary
This dialog allows the designer to specify rules to check a component which is currently active in the PCB library.
Access
From the PCB Library Editor, select Reports » Component Rule Check from the toolbar to access this dialog.
Options/Controls
Duplicate
- Pads - Enable this option to check for components with duplicate pads.
- Primitives - Enable this option to check for components with duplicate primitives.
- Footprints - Enable this option to check for components with duplicate footprints.
Constraints
- Missing Pad Names - Enable this option to check for components with missing pad names.
- Mirrored Component - Enable this option to check for components that are mirrored.
- Offset Component Reference - Enable this option to check for components with the component reference offset.
- Shorted Copper - Enable this option to check for components with shorted copper.
- Unconnected Copper - Enable this option to check for components with unconnected copper.
- Check All Components - Enable this option to check all components in the library.
After clicking the OK button a Component Rule Check Report with the extension ERR will be generated, listing the violations based on the options you have enabled.
