Copper pour doesn't connect pads, fails DRC

[jcastan]

Hey all!

This seems like a redundant question but I haven’t quite found the answer in the previous posts.

I did this first PCB to get used to KiCAD and find myself in trouble with copper pours.
Why doesn’t the DRC recognize the copper pours as “connectors”, i.e. why are the pads considered as not connected?

Thank you for your time

[Rene_Poschl]

DRC counts zones as connecting to pads only if the center of the pad (or the anchor point if you gave the pad an offset) is inside the zone outline.

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[jcastan]

Thank you Rene_Poschi, for the promptness and accuracy of your answer.

[paulvdh]

[Edit:]
Oops, I goofed up.
This post is about connections not being recognized as connected to a zone due to the center of pads not being in the zone boundaries, while the post below is about zones not being connected to other parts of zones at all.

This has a striking similarity to another thread posted just one and 1/2 hours earlier:

Problem: Unconnected Gnd pin, Gnd Zone

Hi experts, In my project, the pcbnew is showing an unconnected Ground pin and a Ground zone. The DRC control for unconnected pins of course confirms it. The pin in question is the pad 1 of the capacitor C4 and the unconnected zone is apparently under U4. I have made various attempts to overcome the problem by placing vias and/or even directly connecting the capacitor pad1 to Ground the problem remains. I must be missing something. If possible I would like to avoid a complete new P & R. Coul…

[jcastan]

I disagree. The other post features “logical” problems, e.g. a copper pour with no connection to the actual net.
Anyway