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Gridded groundplane

See also Article Groundplane


Groundplane as grid

Find it in TARGET 3001! by the icons and or in Layoutmenu Actions / Generate Ground Plane.

This can be done by the second section of the "Groundplane Assistant" dialog:




Using this function should be the very last step during the layout process because deleting the GND-signal from Layer 2=copper bottom, will delete the grid as well as the routed GND-signal. Also the "Check Project" Function will not work because TARGET 3001! needs to check all points of the grid against the minimum spacing set. This will take a huge calculating effort and thus take too much time.


After using this function the Layout as above may look like this:



Deleting a gridded groundplane

For deletion of the gridded groundplane please use section 3 of the groundplane assistant: "Retrieve ground plane" which will create the solid status again.