I had the same problem the other day. Turned out is was 'my bad'. I think I had been working and changing several zone outlines. I had identical zones on copper and component sides. Seems like the problem was that I was trying to add a new zone outline were one already existed (on the copper side) that was being masked by the zone outline on the component side.
Anyway, I pushed KiCAD pretty hard, and it always acted well. In fact, it seems to do zones very well. If you delete one or several zone outlines and put them back roughly in a similar area, it may help to find your problem. It is easy to refill zones, so don't be hesitant about removing any zone fills while adding/modifying zone outlines in an area. ...Jim H. ----- Original Message ----- From: kajdas To: [email protected] Cc: galaviel Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 9:27 PM Subject: Re: [kicad-users] Zone on copper layer only? I use the same version and I have a 4 layer board and I do zones on each layer just fine. I am sure you are doing something wrong, check you netlist and make sure you are filling a zone over a correct net. Martin ---- galaviel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to build a 2-layer board to be sent to BatchPCB.com. > > Yesterday I could swear that PCBNew let me do zone on both sides (copper, and component). I used them for analog GND and VCC respectively. > > But today, after doing small netlist change, I cannot ! > > Whenever I try to add a 2nd zone, After I click the OK button on the > the "Fill Zone Options", the layer selection list box always > switches back to the copper layer. Then of course I get small pop-up > saying "DRC error: this start point is inside or too close an other area". > > I'm using Kicad 20090216-final on Win XP Pro. > > Am I getting something basic here? isn't the component side a copper > layer also? because I have some tracks routed there by the auto-router. > > Any help would be greatly appreciate as I really want to get this board > on the road :) > > TIA, Gal. > > >
