
The Altium/CircuitMaker user manual is clear. That is right I have not deeply studied the subject as PhD student does for his thesis but to be honest there is not much to study. I believe, I made all well there with connection the pads and a layer to the net. It looks similar like 'desqa' presents in his link. Now I cannot see anything that I missed to have it work.īecause I have such a problem, I suppose somebody else could also have faced it. I had different troubles with CircuitMaker, but finally I found logical solution. I do not have any idea what may be wrong.

I repeated it again, and it was OK again, and then disappeared again! Recently I am not able to recreate this behavior, even with two pads only. I connected the rest of the pins and it worked! Unfortunately, after login again the next day, everything disappeared. Actually, I experimented with removing other grounding pins on schematic and finally left only two. I have tried to find a solution for a long time, and nothing helps. I only see the error that pads are not connected.

I expected to see those nice pad connections with air gaps, expansion, and spokes. I run Design Rule Check and get Un-Routed Net Constraint: Net GND Between Pad OUT-1(17mm,35mm) on Multi-Layer And Pad OUT-2(19.5mm,35mm) on Multi-Layer. And I assigned the net name to my internal plane layer (GND layer). Then in PCB Design Rules I assigned the thermal relief pads, and clearances on my plane layer, specified expansion, air-gap and conductor width of a thermal relief pads. I validated the project, no errors were found. I set up correctly my schematic, assigned the net label named “GND” where I needed. I do not connect anything (not any pads or vias) to PWR layer, but I want to connect all grounding (36) pads to GND layer. I am designing a four-layer PCB two signal layers (top and bottom), and two internal layers (GND and PWR).
