I'm part of a team that, among other things, designs hardware for commercial products. I have been advocating that we switch from Eagle to KiCad. The sticking point right now is the difficulty of creating zones. My colleague Hal, who does most of the board layout, points out the following.
The context is the "fill zone, check plot, delete zone, revise layout" cycle, repeated several times. If the layout change affects the zone edges, or if you make a mistake in the zone edges, you have to delete the zone limit and start over. He finds that very tedious, and I have to admit that I agree. I think it would be helpful if zone edges could be edited just like tracks. I have found a workaround: Instead of defining the zone boundary in the normal way, create a no-net track (with DRC off) around the zone. The zone fill will then stay inside that track (assuming that it is not selected when you do the fill). You can edit that track's position with the normal track editing procedures. The workaround has one problem: The fill has a track around it. You can delete that track as the final step if you wish, but then you will have to replace it if you ever want to revise the design. Please read the Kicad FAQ in the group files section before posting your question. Please post your bug reports here. They will be picked up by the creator of Kicad. Please contribute your symbols/modules to the library folder in the group files section. For building Kicad from source and other development questions visit the kicad-devel group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-users/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
