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[Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Laen-

If you are compiling yourself, you can grab the v5 branch here:
git clone -b 5.0 https://git.launchpad.net/kicad

The latest commit should have re-
enabled zone filling as I described.

Best-
Seth

Am Mi., 8. Aug. 2018 um 13:22 Uhr schrieb 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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