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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Seth,

I think this is due to an unhandled exception in the file loading code.
 If I open the board with a debug build of kicad, I get a warning about
the board being an old board file version and the board opens just fine.
 With release builds, I don't see the board file version warning and it
immediately crashes.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 9/26/2018 2:22 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> So we have an archaeological (and very valid) bug report over at lp:1794571
> 
> The board in question (thermo.brd attached) has a SEGZONE fill without
> an associated area.  As far as I can tell, the "zone" doesn't have
> boundaries so much as just segments.  This fails when we load into our
> connectivity as a zone because we assume a bounded polygon even for the
> old segment-based fills.
> 
> I loaded it up in 4.0.5 and it looks like the attached image.  I can't
> see that there was any way to edit the segment fill other than just
> deleting individual segments.
> 
> Converting into 5.0, we have (I think) three options:
> 
> 1) Drop all segments that are in unbounded zones
> 2) Convert the unbounded zone segments to plain segments (this looks
> like the 5.0 image attached)
> 3) Work out a bounding box when loading and set that to segment-based fill
> 
> All three options will result in changing the board.  Option 2 results
> in the most fidelity to the original design but is hardest to edit. 
> Option 3 is easiest to edit but has the biggest chance for breaking
> something.  Option 1 is the furthest from the original board design but
> easier to edit than Option 2 and safer than Option 3.
> 
> If there was never a good way to edit these type of fills, then I think
> we should go with option 2.  But I'm open to suggestions here.
> 
> -Seth
> 
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