I think you do not understand how Kicad works with the zones. You cannot connect to the zones directly. First, you have to lay your traces, even for the internal layers, (VSS, VCC, GND, etc.), connect all your vias to the internal nodes and traces, and after you are done, you mark your zones and fill them. When you fill them, you specify which node they connect to and then Kicad fills the properly by adding spaces for the non-connected vias and adding connections to the connected ones. But you always need to have the vias/nodes connected with traces first. Martin
---- Greg Dyess <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, I am confused a little. I understand your point that the VSS layer is > not in the routing "pair" and perhaps that is the real problem. It would be > nice if the autorouter understood connecting to underlying zones. I will try > autorouting and tell it the layer pair is my component layer and the VSS > layer and do an autoroute. Then try the same with the component to > VDD/VCC3/... layer.
