Torby
June 2, 2017, 12:25am
#1
I haven’t ki’d any cads for a while, busy with something else, but now I can’t make it do something simple I know I’ve done a dozen times:
When I plot my pcb to a gerber, none of the filled zones are included? Huh?
A ground plane in PCB New. (Yea, I know it’s not very neat.)
Is missing from grbview.
What have I overlooked?
Can you please post a screenshot of the zone settings and a view of the layout with it filled?
Torby
June 2, 2017, 6:05pm
#3
Properties of the zone in the bottom left.
The whole board. It’s to be home-etched with one side. Figured on a one-evening project till it wouldn’t put the zones in the gerber.
pedro
June 2, 2017, 6:13pm
#4
The zone GNDREF is not filled.
With legacy canvas (F9) and right click, fill the zone. There is another option “Fill or refill all zones”.
bobc
June 2, 2017, 6:52pm
#5
I think it is something else, maybe a bug, definitely a feature…
In this case, I think the zone does not capture enough of the net to be filled. A track passing through does not “trigger” the fill. I was able to reproduce the problem in v4.0.6.
Zone doesn’t fill (yes I did select “FIll Zone”!)
Just drag the left edge a bit (I changed absolutely nothing else, honest
I found the same behaviour in both Default and OpenGL canvasses.
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Zones only fill when they have a connection to their Net and yours looks totally isolated
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Torby
June 4, 2017, 8:53pm
#7
“Fill Zone” Oh! I knew I was overlooking something. Thanks!
Torby
June 6, 2017, 6:37pm
#8
I was forgetting to type “B.”
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