Create Nice angled copper pour - ultiboard

[AA2]

I want to design nice sharp angled copper pour areas normally at 45,90 or 135 degrees, as shown in attached image.

1. I have seen that there is no such feature in ultiboard for copper pour?

2. Using copper polygon & drawing shapes at it doesn't gives such sharp angles as they are manually rotated , and they looked bad in PCB?

How to do that

[Chen_T]

Hi there,

One method to do this is to draw a copper area outline whose angel is 45°/135° first and then draw the polygon over the tracks. 

You can press the Space bar while placing a line in a copper layer, this will toggle between orthogonal, diagonal, 45 degree, and any angle lines.

Alternatively, in the Customize dialog box an Any Angle Lines is available, complete the following procedure to add this option to your user interface:

1. From the main menu select Options» Customize Interface
2. Select Place from the Categories listbox
3. Put your mouse cursor on Any angle lines from the Command listbox. Hold the left mouse button down and you should see a small rectangle attached to your mouse cursor
4. Continue to hold the left mouse button down and drag the rectangle over Place main menu to expand it. 
5. Drop the rectangle in the Place menu

Tip: You should repeat the above steps and add the 45 degree lines to your menu so that you can switch between any angle and 45 degree line while working on the layout.

After you finished the polygon, you can delete the copper ppour outline. In the polygon properties, you can also set the width of it.

Hope this helps!:-)

Regards,