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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Seth,

On 09/28/2018 09:35 AM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> 
> Hi Wayne-
> 
> Am Fr., 28. Sep. 2018 um 05:00 Uhr schrieb Wayne Stambaugh
> <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>>:
> 
>     > If we do want to maintain the actual SEGZONE object on the board, we
>     > should port the command to clear it over to GAL as well.
> 
>     This would be my preference as it keeps with our stance about not
>     silently changing boards at load time.  I think in this case that users
>     would convert over to polygon fills but I don't think we should force
>     that on them.  I'm OK with not allowing editing of the old SEGZONE
>     objects since we no longer support them and asking the user if they want
>     to convert them to a polygon filled zone but silently doing this is
>     dubious.
> 
> 
> OK.  So the plan is to keep the segments as a SEGZONE object but ignore
> it in all connectivity and DRC.  I will port the "Delete Segment Zone"
> command to GAL.
> 
> Let me know if I've missed/misunderstood anything here.

I think that pretty much covers it unless someone else has a better
idea.  I think giving the user the option to convert the SEGZONE to a
normal polygon filled zone would be nice but not necessary for 5.0.1.
It may be something we could implement in 5.1 or 6 although I don't know
if it would be worth the effort.  Given that few of these boards still
exist, it is probably easy enough for the user to remove them manually
and create a normal filled zone.

> 
> -Seth
>