Data Sheet

LABCENTER ELECTRONICS LTD.
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Zone icon in the Selection Filter
Next, zoom in and move the mouse over the edge of the zone, right clicking the mouse when
the zone is shown as active under the mouse. Select the Edit Properties from the resulting
context menu.
Right click on the edge of a zone to edit its options
The main options of interest are towards the bottom of the dialogue form and are explained
below:
Relieve Pins
When checked pins on the same net as the zone will have thermal relief applied to them; the
thickness of the thermal relief is determined by the Relief field of the dialogue form.
The software will prevent you from using a relief track style that is larger than the
boundary style thickness; this is to protect against the reliefs 'sticking out' of the
boundary.
The topology of the relief stems on a particular pad can be changed to a diagonal
'X' by editing the pad itself after placement. This is sometimes useful to maximise
contact with a zone.
This option should almost always be left in its default checked state.
Exclude Tracking
If this option is checked, the zone will treat tracks on its own net as obstacles. Otherwise the
zone flows over such tracking, effectively ignoring it. Tracks on other nets, or loose pieces of
track on no net are always treated as obstacles.
This option is normally left unchecked.