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[Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is one of those situations where it would be nice to have a log
window so any important messages (zone X could not be filled: no pads
or vias found in region) can be seen by the user. Such a beast would
help in other places as well and if it can be attached to
stderr/stdout of another executable (such as the STEP exporter) then
failures will be less mystical.

- Cirilo


On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 4:09 AM, José Ignacio <jose.cyborg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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