How to design a double sided PCB with several PIC relays in OrCAD?

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Hi,
Im designing a double sided PCB with several PICs relays etc. However is it neccesary for me to have a ground plane? If so how do I go about doing this in OrCAD. Im able to make a copper pour BUT the pour does not connect to the pin I select as the seed.
How do I do this?

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Slayerza
 

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Slayerza said:
However is it neccesary for me to have a ground plane?
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If you are building a purely digital board, you can do without a power plane. But, in any event, if you can dedicate the bask side of the board to be a ground plane, it would help.

Slayerza said:
If so how do I go about doing this in OrCAD. Im able to make a copper pour BUT the pour does not connect to the pin I select as the seed.
How do I do this?
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In the properties of a copper plane somewhere towards the bottom-right corner you can choose a node, which this copper pour will connect to. Pick GND from the list and repour.
By the way, I would like to recommend this groupd for OrCAD-related questions
https://groups.yahoo.com/group/OrCADexchange
 

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