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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Isn't the thermal spoke width a different setting than the minimum
width?  I'm under the impression that these two zone properties control
completely different aspects of the zone fill and have no impact on the
other.

On 7/7/2019 5:01 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> We've done this a few times already with zones.  As long as the existing
> fills don't change, we've left the property.  Refilling is expected to
> change, I think.
> 
> I'd be in favor of allowing min width to mean min width.
> 
> -Seth
> 
> On 2019-07-07 16:08, Jeff Young wrote:
>> We have a zone property “Minimum Width”.  Unfortunately, it isn’t.
>> It’s the width we’ll collapse (so minimum width would be 1nm more).
>>
>> I’d be inclined to fix this (primarily so that thermal spokes and
>> minimum width could be the same), but then we have the old “will
>> change old boards” issue.
>>
>> We could also try and change the property name, but I can’t think of a
>> concise way to express “remove features this width and less”.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jeff.
>>
>> Ref: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1835674
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