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[Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Steven,

Good catch, thank you for the report. It should be already fixed
(a3562b35 and later).

Regards,
Orson

On 03/07/2018 06:28 AM, Strontium wrote:
> Sorry for posting this, AND also posting a bug report, but i know you
> guys are close to releasing a V5 and i have been testing RC2 from
> nightly PPA and have hit two bugs which would be show stoppers for me,
> and make me want to go back to V4.
> 
> First one is a problem with Zone refills using DRC.
> 
> If I have a zone, and place a via or track over it from another net. 
> And then do a DRC, but select "Refill all zones..." then the DRC
> proceeds without error, and says it refilled the Zone.
> 
> However, a visual inspection of the board shows, no the zone did not
> refill and the via and zone now clash because they are not the same net,
> but there is no DRC violation.
> 
> Thats what it looks like. But what is really happening is the zone is
> being recalculated, and the DRC is passing because the Zone does now
> actually flow properly around the net overlapping it. BUT what happens
> is the board is not redrawn to show the new zone outline.  Zooming
> around the board, etc, does not cause it to redraw either.  The only
> ways i have found to make it redraw is to manually select the zone for
> editing, or to press "B"
> 
> Its a highly disconcerting problem, because the board that kicad
> "understands" and the one it "displays" are out of sync.
> 
> The effect is obvious when one does a 3d render of the board, because
> that shows the board that kicad understands, even though in the pcb
> editor its shown as not that.  as shown here:
> http://i.imgur.com/hKfPJ22.png
> 
> the other problem i will post separately.
> 
> Steven
> 
> 
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