SMD Components No Copper

[Stackeddeck]

As the title says there is no copper on SMD parts when placed even though it shows there is in the preview. Through-hole pad shown for example. Thanks in advance

[Tomg]

The pattern's SMD copper color will take on the color assigned to the corresponding layer in the PCB Layout editor. Through-hole copper will assume the color assigned in the colors menu (View > Colors...). To confirm that what you are seeing is copper, temporarily disable (uncheck) the Top copper in the Layers panel.

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[Stackeddeck]

Thanks for the reply but I'm afraid that this must not be the case when I uncheck the layer boxes the SMD parts show nothing at all. Here is the same picture without those layers checked. Also I have been using Diptrace for almost a decade and it has never been like that before. I had to switch computers lately and do a fresh install and now this is occurring; something isn't correct.

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Furthermore there are 2 pictures below (one from top and one from the bottom) showing a "through-hole" pad with no hole or bot pad aka a manual SMD pad and it shows on top of the layers. As it always does and always has I'm sorry to say it but what your suggesting is not how Diptrace functions. Pads show on top of copper less they are turned off.

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Lastly I ordered boards like that because it was a fresh install I thought it was a new change but the boards came with no SMD pads at all.

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[gunrunnerjohn]

I just stumbled across this looking for something else. Did you ever figure out what was happening?

[Alex]

It looks like SMD pads were tented. You can right click on a SMD pad in PCB Layout, open "Mask/Paste Settings" from submenu and verify the settings. Specifically, check top solder mask and bottom solder mask. If they were tented, change to "Common State" (that is open by default) or define "Open" explicitly. And apply the changes to all similar pads and similar components.

[gunrunnerjohn]

It looks like SMD pads were tented. You can right click on a SMD pad in PCB Layout, open "Mask/Paste Settings" from submenu and verify the settings. Specifically, check top solder mask and bottom solder mask. If they were tented, change to "Common State" (that is open by default) or define "Open" explicitly. And apply the changes to all similar pads and similar components.

Just curious, how and why would this happen?