I played a bit more and I can reproducably crash PCBnew when adding a new rectangular zone anywhere on my PCB! I also tried to remove parts (tracks, components, etc) to find out what might hold up the zone filling function. Aa a result, it really comes down to stating with a bare board again :-(
Have you tried the latest build - and if yes, is there any improvement? Thanks, Heiko > Just to say I was doing something similar recently and kicad crashed on > me a number of times whilst zone filling (the crash generally being > preceded by a delay), so it looks like something's not quite right in > the zone filling code. The crashes seemed completely random, so I've > not been able to put together a useful bug report. > > I have some Windows crash interception and reporting code if the Kicad > authors are interested. Unfortunately I don't think it could be made > to work on Linux because it traps structured exceptions, but it sure > beats trawling through the code looking for oversights. > > Regards, > > Robert. > > oecherexpat wrote: > > I did create some (around 5) zones on one layer. When trying to fill > > the first one, PCBnew did freeze. Same result when trying to fill all > > zones. > > Is anyone else experiencing similar issues. Or does it just take ages > > for PCBnew to do the filling? Does it depend on the complexity/shapes > > of the zones? > > I am using V20080825c on WinXP > > Thanks, Heiko
