This is one of those situations where it would be nice to have a log window so any important messages (zone X could not be filled: no pads or vias found in region) can be seen by the user. Such a beast would help in other places as well and if it can be attached to stderr/stdout of another executable (such as the STEP exporter) then failures will be less mystical.
- Cirilo On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 4:09 AM, José Ignacio <[email protected]> wrote: > I do like KiCad's behavior quite a bit, though maybe there could be a better > way to signal users about it. In any case it is much better than E**le's > tendency to fill zones even though things are disconnected. I have a box > with 100 fully assembled coasters from a previous designer that used a > ground plane in E**le and did not see first go that all the grounds were > disconnected, going to isolated pours. > > On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Andy Peters <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> > On Feb 9, 2017, at 12:18 AM, Maciej Suminski <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > >> > Hi Andy, >> > >> > I have just checked, and apparently it is not a GAL issue. To have a >> > zone filled, one needs a pad or via placed in the zone area. The >> > intention is to avoid creating unconnected islands of copper. >> >> I see. I just did a test. Because the zone an inner layer on a board with >> all SMT devices, there are no pads connected to it. And I hadn’t dropped any >> vias from the parts on the top and bottom layer to the pour. Once I did >> that, the zone filled. That makes sense once the reasoning is known. >> >> Thanks for the help! >> >> -a >> >> >> > >> > Regards, >> > Orson >> > >> > On 02/03/2017 12:22 AM, Andy Peters wrote: >> >> This is odd. I’m doing a four-layer board, with the usual two inner >> >> layers for power (In1.Cu) and ground (In2.Cu) planes. I’m using the OpenGL >> >> canvas. >> >> >> >> I added a pour that covered the entire In2.Cu layer, attached it to the >> >> GND net, and the pour shows as solid fills. I put a couple of small pours >> >> on >> >> F.Cu and B.Cu and those pours show as solid fills, too. >> >> >> >> I added a couple of non-overlapping pours on In1.Cu, with nets >> >> attached, and only the outline of the pour is displayed. In Legacy canvas, >> >> the pours on this layer show as whatever is specified by the Outline Style >> >> (Line, Hatched, Fully Hatched) but it is not showing a solid fill. The >> >> three >> >> Zone Fill buttons on the left-hand toolbar do nothing on this layer, too. >> >> >> >> I tried the same design on a Mac running 10.12.3 (Kicad details below) >> >> as well as a Win7-64 machine using last night’s nightly build, and both >> >> have >> >> the exact same issue. >> >> >> >> >> >> Application: kicad >> >> Version: (2017-01-31 revision e03fef3)-master, release build >> >> Libraries: wxWidgets 3.0.2 >> >> libcurl/7.51.0 SecureTransport zlib/1.2.8 >> >> Platform: Mac OS X (Darwin 16.4.0 x86_64), 64 bit, Little endian, wxMac >> >> - Build Info - >> >> wxWidgets: 3.0.2 (UTF-8,STL containers,compatible with 2.8) >> >> Boost: 1.61.0 >> >> Curl: 7.43.0 >> >> KiCad - Compiler: Clang 7.3.0 with C++ ABI 1002 >> >> Settings: USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=ON >> >> USE_WX_OVERLAY=ON >> >> KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON >> >> KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON >> >> KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON >> >> KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=OFF >> >> BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON >> >> KICAD_USE_SCH_IO_MANAGER=OFF >> >> KICAD_USE_OCE=ON >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> 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 >> >> Andy Peters >> 5511 E Rosewood St >> Tucson, AZ 85711 >> 520-907-2262 >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
