[kicad-users] Defining thermal zone

[Michele]

hallo ... I'm a newbie in KiCAD using but I'm very interested into learning it 
deeply.
I followed the tutorial delivered by David Jahshan and I think I got everything 
but the definition of thermal zones. Probably the main problems found are due 
to the release I'm using that's pretty newer than the one used by DJ while 
writing its tutorial. Anyway I really cannot define properly a thermal zone 
(neither a ground plane). How can I do this?

Re: [kicad-users] Fiducilas

[Dan Andersson]

On Monday 09 March 2009 01:30:48 oecherexpat wrote:
 I tried to create a fiducial. PCB manufacturer's requirement is to have a
 round copper pad of 1mm diameter with a copper-free and solder-resist-free
 area of 3mm around it. Creating the solder-resist-free area is no problem
 but to have the area copper-free I added a little copper ring of 3mm
 diameter. Unfortunateley, the zone filling function does not care about the
 copper ring and just over-fills it.


Ensure your copper ring is in the same layer as zone filling.

When designing the ring, see to that it is connected to an unused component 
part. This way, the zone filler will avoid it.

//Dan, M0DFI


 Anyone with an idea how to solve this?

 Thanks,  Heiko