So you copy and paste your PCB carefully and you find none of your ground planes are connected in the copies. You click on a track and find it's assigned to net 0, in fact ALL the copies are assigned to net 0!  WTF! In my case I didn't notice this and had the boards made. Of course on reciept I found only the original layout had ground connections.  This meant that 75% of my boards had to be manually fixed up with wire links for all the GND pins.  Not a disaster bit still a PITA.

How to avoid this?  I'll tell you.

Don't use copy/paste. Use Duplicate from the Right mouse menu after selection and the net names get reproduces correctly.

Print, gerber it, zip it, send it, pay, (wait a while), profit.

Last changed: 21. January, 2021 at 23:02

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