Working with the Modified Polygon Design Rule on a PCB in Altium Designer

This document is no longer available beyond version 21. Information can now be found here: Modified Polygon Rule for version 25

 

Rule category: Electrical

Rule classification: Unary

Summary

This rule detects polygons that are still shelved and/or have been modified, but have not yet been repoured.

All design rules are created and managed within the PCB Rules and Constraints Editor dialog. For a high-level view of working with the design rules system, see Defining, Scoping & Managing PCB Design Rules.

Constraints

Default constraints for the Modified Polygon rule.Default constraints for the Modified Polygon rule.

  • Allow shelved - if enabled, all polygons that fall within the scope of this design rule, and that are currently shelved, will not be flagged as a violation.
  • Allow modified - if enabled, all polygons that fall within the scope of this design rule, and that are currently modified but have not been repoured, will not be flagged as a violation.

How Duplicate Rule Contentions are Resolved

All rules are resolved by the priority setting. The system goes through the rules from highest to lowest priority and picks the first one whose scope expression matches the object(s) being checked.

Rule Application

Online DRC and Batch DRC.

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