Hello,

For the first question I should also try to change the margin.

For the second question, we delete and redo all vias between both zones each 
time we make the zone, so it is the last thing we do.

Pedro.

> Hi.  I have a two layer board and I made a ground plane zone on top and
> bottom after I finished the layout and routing.  When I sent the board
> to the freedfm.com website it said I had traces too narrow, and the
> pictures showed that the "traces" were all little fingers of the zones
> that went into narrow places.  I realize that I can increase the grid
> size, or change the clearance settings to help eliminate this, but then
> it makes ragged edges around pads and does not completely eliminate the
> problem.  It seems what we need is a setting for a "minimum fill width"
> or something of the sort that would keep the zone from filling an area
> that is narrower than the setting.  Does this make sense?
> 
> Another problem I have is that I made vias to connect the top and bottom
> ground zones together better, but when I delete the zone fill and
> re-fill it goes around the vias.  So I right click on the via and under
> the "Change width" menu it says "Change Net", but when I click it
> nothing happens.  The net for the via is not changed.  Am I missing
> something, or is this not working correctly?
> 
> Thanks,
> Moses McKnight
> 
> 
>

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