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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, I used Xpedition in a past life and one of my missions is to bring
some of its cool features to KiCad :-)

JP, I will do some tests on more complex boards and look in to possible
solutions.
I think this is quite a big challenge but want to take it on, because I
think some of the underlying work needed will also be very useful for other
things (like live DRC checking, autorouting, etc)

-Jon

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> On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 8:35 AM, Clemens Koller <cko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Hello, Jon!
>>
>> Just for Reference: That's how Mentor Expedition is exposing dynamic
>> plane generation:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6TskayF1Oc
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>> I would be glad to test these things in Kicad...
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Clemens
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>> On 2017-09-19 02:18, Jon Evans wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I've been wanting to take a look at live zone filling, as it's a really
>> useful feature that some professional EDA tools have.  If zones refill in
>> real time as you move things around, it's easy to make sure you leave
>> enough space for your fill to succeed.
>> >
>> > I made a quick patch to pcbnew showing this after an interactive trace
>> move (see attached gif)
>> > For this board and my computer, refilling is fast enough that this
>> isn't a problem (I disabled the pop up window showing a progress bar for
>> the "refill all zones" command).
>> >
>> > Can anyone point me to (or send me) some really complicated KiCad
>> designs in terms of zone fills?  Do people have designs that take a while
>> to fill even on recent computers?
>> >
>> > If I proposed this as a patch, I'd make it an option (disabled by
>> default) in case it slows down old computers, but I think if zone filling
>> for moderately complex boards still takes a while even on fast modern
>> computers, we should look at optimizing it so that we can achieve real-time
>> filling on modern computers.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Jon
>> >
>> >
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