In my case I'm using zones for high current and high-ish ac voltage traces so I can provide enough area to disperse heat and reduce conductivity. I wasn't sure how else to manage doing this with traces but I'm coming from eaglecad.
Chris On Jun 25, 2013, at 12:11 PM, Dick Hollenbeck <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/25/2013 05:32 AM, Chris Morgan wrote: >> I searched but couldn't find a hotkey for moving zone edges or a command to >> do so in the >> hotkey list. Should I send a patch to add a new hotkey for that? >> >> Chris > > > I last used zone editing quite some time ago, on a board with over 10 zones. > > I don't know enough about current behavior to be helpful, will find out in > another day, > doing a new board now. > > When I last looked, the biggest difficulty with zone editing was hit-testing > of the zone > edges. At that time it would often not find the edge correctly, and when it > did, it would > find one from a neighboring zone on the same layer as well. This may have > improved. > > The hotkey by comparison, for me, is a smaller need than accurate > hit-testing, and I > personally see no reason to oppose such a new feature. > > Your hotkey will also have to contend with hit-testing, should use the same > code as mouse > does, at least after the dust settles. > > > Dick > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
