See pic below. I’m climbing the learning curve here in trying to connect a track to a filled zone.
I managed it but I’m not sure how it’s going to turn out when the PCB is created.
Thoughts anyone?
Regards,
Dan
Capacitor Pin 1 looks OK in that the track seems to be connected to the zone. But I wonder why pin 1 is not otherwise connected with thermal relief or solid connection to the zone. This is probably not so important but is worth figuring out.
Is the yellow area a different zone? It looks like very close spacing to the blue zone. Is capacitor pin 2 supposed to be connected to it? It looks like you manually created some very tight electrical clearance?
Yes, the layout is not complete. I was experimenting with connecting pin 1 to the zone.
Pin 1 is the bottom layer. Pin 2 will end up being the top.
Regards,
Dan
Your pcb layout does not look quite right and I am probably not the best person to answer at the moment. But…in the meantime please go to help>about>copy version info and paste it into your next post.
Another thing is to post anything you see about your zone properties.
Did you manually produce the square (I will call it a clearance hole but I am not sure that it is) around capacitor pin 2?
Experiment with the Zone Properties. If you want to solidly connect pin 1 to the zone choose Solid.
There’s also similar with Pad Properties if you want some control at the Pad level:
I believe the yellow area is filled silkscreen. Not uncommon for AlEl caps.
Being bottom or top layer seems logical for SMD pads (pins (in KiCad) are at schematic).
But you are saying it about THT pads what makes no sense for me.
Looks to me that you didn’t refill the zones, try pressing B and I think you will find you still have work to do . . . did you set the correct net for the zone ?
Looks OK.
Drawing tracks from a pad outside of the zone to a track inside the zone is the simplest and reliable way. You can also just draw a track from the pad outside of the zone to anywhere inside the zone, but in that case you may get into trouble when using PCB Editor / Tools / Cleanup tracks & Vias. I did a quick test by drawing a track into a zone (and without connecting it to another pad) and then: PCB Editor / Tools / Cleanup Tracks & Vias with the Delete tracks unconnected at one end option, and KiCad was smart enough to keep that track. The ratsnest line from the pad also disappeared then I drew a track from it just into the zone. So it all seems to work “as expected” (depending on your expectations).
Also, if you are in doubt how anything is going to turn out on your final PCB, then generate a set of gerber files and view them in a gerber viewer.
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