Hi, that is a feature, not a problem ;)
But you can disable it. In kicad, when you redraw a track, it removes the old one, which is suposedly not wanted anymore. There is an icon on the left side with a pink rubber to disable/enable that feature... Alain wdoe999 escreveu: > Hi - I'm going bonkers with this one. > > I want to put a 50 mil ground plane around the edge of the board. The board > has 4 mounting holes in the corner. I first tried making a zone around the > edge of the board on both sides and then filled it. I then loaded the board > into the freerouter and when it gets near the end of the routine phase, the > number of passes goes berzerk. I stop it and check the unrouted nets and > there is an error that states it cannot route the conduction zone to ground. > The conduction zone is clearly connected to the grounded mounting holes, and > the router is smart enough to connect a bunch of grounds to the conduction > zone, but it somehow complains that it can't route the conduction zone to > ground. > > Ok, there's more than one way to skin a cat. I decided to just use kicad to > draw 50 mil traces around the edge of the board. So a draw a trace from > mounting hole to mounting hole all around the board component side. I then > go to draw the same trace on the solder side of the board. I then go back to > look at the first trace (on the component side) and there are traces on 3 > sides of the board but the fourth side is missing. I then try and redraw the > missing piece. Every time I fillin the missing piece, the piece on the > opposite side of the board disappears. > > Did somebody specifically write code to drive me crazy doing the simplest > thing? At this rate, the board should be done in 10,000 years. > > It must be common to put such a ground plane around the edge and then use the > freerouter. Any thoughts? > > > > ------------------------------------ > > 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 > > > > >
