thanks, that was fast, I never get a ratsnest dotted line as you can see from the uploaded image. If I did then I would know they are connected and can remove them. I bet if I did remove them the connectors wouldn't light. Don't understand, "the ground pins only light when there is no ground fill...".Thought you didn't have to use a trace for seeds. Still don't understand why if 3 connectors are touching the ground fill "yellow" they don't light when you click one of them. I bought Simon Monk's book hoping he would explain all of this but has very little on GFs and nothing on seeds. I get the part of linking the islands, that makes sense. How can I trust that the ground fill seeds are connected by the ground fill if they don't light when one is clicked? Am i just supposed to accept that they are connected and submit my PCB for production?
Cant find anything online that fully explains how to use seeds and ground fill.Do you know of any site? Am I the only one with this problem and these questions or just dense?
thanks again for your helpl
lasl