Copper filled areas

Layout
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Hello.

I am trying to design some contact areas for a position lever on a flex foil. I have managed to import the geometry from freecad into the Kicad layout editor and to transfer it from user.drawing to a copper layer.

Is there now a way to fill the areas with copper and to assign a different net to every of these areas?

Thank you for any help.

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There are different workflows/options you could apply. But it depends a little bit on the used kicad version (v5/v6/v7/v8/v9) - so give us this information and we will give you a useful answer.

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My Kicad version is 9.0.3

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I assume that your grapühics are on a copper layer and that the individual shapes are closed polygones.

  1. use zones: select the polygone → RMB-click → context menu → create from selection → create zone from selection. Then fill in the zopne dialog with all wanted parameters (layer, net, priority).
  2. use filled graphic shapes (especially filled polygone): if not already defined as polygone: select the consisting lines → RMB-click → context menu → create from selection → create polygone from selection. Then doubleclick polygone, and set polygone to “filled” and choose the wanted net in the polygone properties dialog.

Note that a filled zone behaves different than a filled graphic polygone!