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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/12/2015 11:25 AM, Maciej Sumiński wrote:
> On 06/01/2015 06:23 PM, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I did a small investigation of the polygon-related
>> segfaults/miscalculations. It looks like Boost.polygon badly handles
>> cases where intersection points of the edges of the polygons lie close
>> to each other or overlap, causing the 'snap rounding' algorithm used in
>> boost to go haywire. This is the case for complex zones, with a lot of
>> thermal holes or via patterns (i.e. a thermal pad under a QFN with a via
>> field).
> [snip]
> 
> I have just committed Tom's work (rev 5741), as it fixes a bug marked as
> critical [1] and hopefully resolves all other problems related to
> boost::polygon library.
> 
> If you face any problems filling polygons, there is an option to revert
> to the legacy zone filling algorithm (Preferences -> General ->
> Advanced/Developer -> Use legacy filling algorithm) and please report
> such cases.
> 
> Thanks Tom!
> 
> Regards,
> Orson
> 
> 1. https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1459720
> 

Thank you Tom.  Everyone please test this as thoroughly as possible over
the next few days so we can start moving forward on the stable release.