Altium: Pouring Polygon attached to a specific net class for direct connections

Question

I've got multiple polygons on this board I'm laying out. Some want to have direct connetsions to pads and others not.

I was originally adding lots of nets to my rules to allow for direct connections and thought there must be a better way. I originally tried wildcards in the names of the nets in the rules, but that didn't work.

I then had the idea that I could create a netclass called Solid Pour and assign the nets I wanted to have solid connections, to this net class. I did this by right clicking on the net and assigning it to the relevant net class.

In the polygon rules I then created a rule called Solid By Class, put that as highest priority and said when the first object matches Net Class of Solid Pour, the connect style should be direct connect. However, this doesn't work, I still have to go in and add the specific net name to a custom query. I'm going to end up with a custom query a million kilometers long at this rate!

Is there are way to do what I want to do please? Or am I doing essentially the right thing, but missing an important step out? I can see the nets are being assigned to the relevant class.

Answer 1

Found out how to do this. You have to attach the net to to net class in the schematic and then take it though to the PCB. I did find tutorials on how to do this, but they were old and things have chnaged in v19 and above (maybe earlier).

So:

Place | Directive | Paramater Set

Attach that to the net.

Go into the properties of this placed Parameter Set, name it something sensible, then under classes click add and name the class to whatever you want. In my case, Solid Pour. You can copy and paste this to any other nets that you want pouring in a solid plane. For these repeated channels it makes them all part of the same class, which is great.

Then, update the PCB and add a Rule (Design | Rule) in the Plane Section, under Polygon Connect Style and you can simply say when the first object matches NetClass and the new net class will be in the drop down box.

It works exactly as I'd expected it to work then.

Obv, really...