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Altium Designer Internal Plane

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plane designer

I have created some internal planes with split planes in them. When I create the gerbers and view them in a gerber viewer program the plane is not filled in. I just get the outlines that I set.

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altium negativ view

The plane layers in Altium Designer are negative layers. That means that objects which can be seen on those layers are voids in the copper. You aren't seeing "outlines", you're seeing the places where the copper is going to be removed.

Likewise with direct connections to the plane from thru-hole vias and pads. You won't see anything where they connect to the plane, because there is no copper to be removed. Only the pads and vias that pass thru the plane without connecting are going to show anti-pads.

Board fabricators know about negative planes. It's the normal way of showing a plane layer, and it keeps the Gerber files smaller and simpler than positive plane layers.
 

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altium plane negative

And if you want to view negative planes in gerber viewer you have to select negative view option than you can see internal planes as filled.
 

anti pad pcb altium

What I would like to do is create an odd shaped pullback from the edge so I guess I need to add some solid regions around the board edge. Also I want to have the layer numbers. So I need to create a solid region with the number in negative?

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altium plane

Yes if you want suppose 40 mil pull back than add a 40 mil copper in same internal plane, as on generating negative it will be no copper so you will have desired pull back.
For layer number you donot have to fill region as on creating negative it will show void and not the number you can leave it as it is.
 

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