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[José Ignacio <jose.cyborg@xxxxxxxxx>]

I do like KiCad's behavior quite a bit, though maybe there could be a
better way to signal users about it. In any case it is much better than
E**le's tendency to fill zones even though things are disconnected. I have
a box with 100 fully assembled coasters from a previous designer that used
a ground plane in E**le and did not see first go that all the grounds were
disconnected, going to isolated pours.

On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> > On Feb 9, 2017, at 12:18 AM, Maciej Suminski <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Andy,
> >
> > I have just checked, and apparently it is not a GAL issue. To have a
> > zone filled, one needs a pad or via placed in the zone area. The
> > intention is to avoid creating unconnected islands of copper.
>
> I see. I just did a test. Because the zone an inner layer on a board with
> all SMT devices, there are no pads connected to it. And I hadn’t dropped
> any vias from the parts on the top and bottom layer to the pour. Once I did
> that, the zone filled. That makes sense once the reasoning is known.
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> -a
>
>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Orson
> >
> > On 02/03/2017 12:22 AM, Andy Peters wrote:
> >> This is odd. I’m doing a four-layer board, with the usual two inner
> layers for power (In1.Cu) and ground (In2.Cu) planes. I’m using the OpenGL
> canvas.
> >>
> >> I added a pour that covered the entire In2.Cu layer, attached it to the
> GND net, and the pour shows as solid fills. I put a couple of small pours
> on F.Cu and B.Cu and those pours show as solid fills, too.
> >>
> >> I added a couple of non-overlapping pours on In1.Cu, with nets
> attached, and only the outline of the pour is displayed. In Legacy canvas,
> the pours on this layer show as whatever is specified by the Outline Style
> (Line, Hatched, Fully Hatched) but it is not showing a solid fill. The
> three Zone Fill buttons on the left-hand toolbar do nothing on this layer,
> too.
> >>
> >> I tried the same design on a Mac running 10.12.3 (Kicad details below)
> as well as a Win7-64 machine using last night’s nightly build, and both
> have the exact same issue.
> >>
> >>
> >> Application: kicad
> >> Version: (2017-01-31 revision e03fef3)-master, release build
> >> Libraries: wxWidgets 3.0.2
> >>           libcurl/7.51.0 SecureTransport zlib/1.2.8
> >> Platform: Mac OS X (Darwin 16.4.0 x86_64), 64 bit, Little endian, wxMac
> >> - Build Info -
> >> wxWidgets: 3.0.2 (UTF-8,STL containers,compatible with 2.8)
> >> Boost: 1.61.0
> >> Curl: 7.43.0
> >> KiCad - Compiler: Clang 7.3.0 with C++ ABI 1002
> >>        Settings: USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=ON
> >>                  USE_WX_OVERLAY=ON
> >>                  KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
> >>                  KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
> >>                  KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
> >>                  KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=OFF
> >>                  BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
> >>                  KICAD_USE_SCH_IO_MANAGER=OFF
> >>                  KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
> >>
> >>
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