Differential Pair Gap Rule with Skew added?

Hi all,

I am currently routing a PCB that has multiple differential pairs. Each has to have 0.15mm pair gap, which I have implemented in a custom rule (will change depending on layer in final version).

The issue I am having is that once I correct for the differential pair skew, when I run DRC it now shows hundreds of gap issues due to the added length matching skew.

Is there a way to turn this off the gap check rule for segments that have length tuning added to them?

I’m wondering if this might be a bug, as its only the top section of each skew curve that is being highlighted as an error as shown bellow:

I was using 9.0.0, updated to 9.0.1 and same issue.

Tried on 8.0.5 and it didn’t show any errors, though it also didn’t show any errors when I purposely separated the differential pairs.

Edit: Tried 8.0.9 and this has the same issue.

Its a bug, looks like it was introduced in 8.0.9.

Listed in bugs as “Differential pair skew tuning pattern causes “diff pair gap out of range” DRC errors” #19827

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