Hello,
I need track for 20A current and I was planning to do using a first copper zone. Then I created a general ground plan on the whole PCB and I thought the software was going to exclude my first zone.
Well no . The ground plane covered my first area with DRC errors.
Why ? Not possible ?
If you want different zones of different nets within each other one of them needs to have a higher priority. This setting is found in the zone properties dialog
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Thanks for your comment added to that screenshot. It would help if the documentation mentioned if a higher number was higher or lower priority. Both are logically possible
A tooltip might be a good idea aswell.
That characteristic bit me on at least one occasion. Like you say, either sense is reasonable but it’s not well documented.
Dale
Windows7, 64Bit, KiCAD nightly, Version: (2017-02-10 revision 1bcbbb4)-makepkg, release build, hoovering the mouse pointer over the red marked area…
Going by ‘highter’ I’d say larger numbers equal ‘highter’ priority 
though I’d agree, that it’s missing an example
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Thanks for your help