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[James Neal <laen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Awesome!  This is the last thing standing in the way of us supporting
Native Kicad 5 uploads. :)

We'll take a stab at adding it to the python SWIG.

-Laen

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 12:25 PM Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Laen-
>
> Unfortunately, zone filling was factored out into a second file in Dec
> 2017 and it looks like you are the first person to note that the python
> SWIG includes did not update with it.  So, at the moment, KiCad v5 doesn't
> have a zone fill command in python.  I'll see about updating that for
> v5.0.1.
>
> Once we fix this, the python command will change as we now have a
> dedicated zone_filler class.  The calling structure will also change.  The
> following will be the new routine to achieve this:
>
> import pcbnew
> board = pcbnew.GetBoard()
> filler = pcbnew.ZONE_FILLER(board)
> zones = board.Zones()
> filler.Fill(zones)
>
>
> -Seth
>
> Am Mi., 8. Aug. 2018 um 11:30 Uhr schrieb James Neal <laen@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> Hey!
>>
>> We use the kicad python library to CAM boards for manufacturing.   One of
>> the big issues we see in customer uploads is they fail to fill zones before
>> saving the file, so we use this function:
>>
>>   def __Fill_All_Zones(self):
>>     # Kicad doesn't refresh ground pours automatically during plotting
>>     # This can lead to unusual errors if minor adjustments were made,
>>     # and the designer didn't manually refresh.
>>     # This glorious function added thanks to Adam Wolf
>>     for zone_index in xrange(0, self.board.GetAreaCount()):
>>       zone = self.board.GetArea(zone_index)
>>       if not zone.GetIsKeepout():
>>         #__Fill_Zone(self.board, zone)
>>         zone.ClearFilledPolysList();
>>         zone.UnFill();
>>         if zone.GetIsKeepout():
>>             return
>>         zone.BuildFilledSolidAreasPolygons(self.board);
>>         zone.SetIsFilled(True)
>>
>> It looks like zone.BuildFilledSolidAreasPolygons has been removed in the
>> KiCAD 5 python API.  Was it replaced with something else, or is there a new
>> way to do this?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> -Laen
>> OSH Park
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