5.99 Convert to polygon, extra material

[RDs]

UPDATE: problem has been fixed and steps for filling polygon have changed:

5.99 Convert to polygon, extra material

To not make thread spam, quick heads up on latest nightly builds 5.99.0.-9910 and up the problem has been fixed, however steps to produce polygon have changed: To fill polygon do following: 1.Import you .dxf file, if there are multiple items, unclick ‘‘Group Items’’. [image] 2.Select everything and click ‘‘convert to polygon’’ [image] 3.What you will have now a polygon and multiple lines version of the same polygon. Select polygon and click hit ‘‘e’’: [image] You should end up with this …

Hey folks,
Ive been very impatient for latest kicad release to have proper polygon support from dxf importer (instead of footprint editor workarround).
For Design I’m doing I need very precise distances and shapes, I am making design in openSCAD, then importing design in 5.99, then converting it to zone. Problem is, I get extra material added on all corners, as If someone drew a line around it. Any ideas how to fix this issue? Maybe I missed a setting that sets offset?

White line is the original shape.
Would be greatfull for any info.

EDIT: It seems like I can edit zones individually, but i’m still puzzled where the default line width value is stored:

[der.ule]

Give it a try here:

[RDs]

I went full retard and change every possible width setting, still no luck. Maybe the default value isn’t exposed anywhere code wise?

[paulvdh]

This is the dialog from: KiCad-nightly V5.99 / File / Import / Graphics…

It has an entry box for a “Default line width” for graphics.

It looks like the lines are added to the imported polygon.
If this is so, then maybe it should be considered a bug, or at least an option to set whether lines are “added” as outlines of polygons.

[RDs]

Default line width only impacts white line width but not the ‘‘zone outline width’’ that you can find under “polygon properties”. Ether this is a bug, or just something someone forgot to add.

[paulvdh]

Alternatively:

You can measure the linewidth and add half of it to your CAD drawing before importing. That will leave only the rounded outside corners.

[der.ule]

If you have the latest nighty you could check in GitLab if there is a bug already reported, otherwise it would be nice if you opened a new one.

If you are on an old nightly, try updating.

EDIT: Which version are you using?

[RDs]

This one, however it may not the be latest latest. Ill test it on latest, if it won’t works Ill make bug report then.

@paulvdh

Alternatively:

You can measure the linewidth and add half of it to your CAD drawing before importing. That will leave only the rounded outside corners.

Yep I considered that, or manually changing value of each segment. If there wouldn’t be so many test setups that I have to test in one batch I wouldn’t mind. Shame kicad doesn’t have ‘‘apply action to all selection’’ function

[RDs]

To not make thread spam, quick heads up on latest nightly builds 5.99.0.-9910 and up the problem has been fixed, however steps to produce polygon have changed:
To fill polygon do following:
1.Import you .dxf file, if there are multiple items, unclick ‘‘Group Items’’.

2.Select everything and click ‘‘convert to polygon’’

3.What you will have now a polygon and multiple lines version of the same polygon. Select polygon and click hit ‘‘e’’:

You should end up with this dialog:

Add checkmark to ‘‘filled shape’’, change linde width to 0.001 and youre done, a perfect accurate shape for both capacitive and inductive pads that you have imported from inkscape or any other tool.

Huge thanks to folks at Kicad team, I was hitting deadlines, took me a while to figure this newer version out and I got there in the end, this is exactly what was needed.