Thanks for the help. I think a setting for minimum zone fill width would be a great help.
I wound up tracks connected to ground pins and wound it all over and placed vias where I wanted them. Then if I have to delete the zone fill to make a change, I don't have to delete all the vias and remake them! Moses On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 11:54 +0200, Pedro Martin wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > 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 visit http://www.kicadlib.org for details of how to contribute your > symbols/modules to the kicad library. > For building Kicad from source and other development questions visit the > kicad-devel group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-develYahoo! Groups > Links > > >
