I am trying to manually create an isolated rectangular pad within a larger ground plane area. The isolated pad is 10mm x 5mm. maybe with a 2mm “keep out” boarder around the pad. will be used to solder a couple of components from the pad to the ground plane. dont see any easy way to do this. I tried using an SMT pad and scaling it up, but that created a bunch of DRC errors. Sorry, there is no schematic, just manually placed stuff. What am I missing?
So you have a plane and want to solder wires directly to that plane area? In this case, you can add polygons with the following settings:
- Layer: Top or Bottom Stop Mask
- Line Width: 0
- Filled: Yes
- Path needs to be closed (last vertex == first vertex)
Then the stop mask should be removed in this area. You can verify it in the 3D viewer.
If that doesn’t help, I’ll need some more details (maybe screenshots can help).