Creating circular copper zones

Hello,

Is it possible to create circular hollow fill zone with a defined thickness in kicad? thanks.

I presume that you want an annulus of copper?

There is a Python script from JSReynaud here https://github.com/jsreynaud/kicad-action-scripts which can do circular zones (either filled or keep out). By combining an outer filled zone and an inner keepout zone, you should be able to produce a ring of whatever thickness you want. Not sure if this will only work on nightly builds though (Usual warnings apply).

Haven’t actually used this but it seems to be possible to create the sort of feature you are describing, YMMV.

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Yes that’s what I’m trying to achieve thanks(that also solves two problems at once for me because of that via stitching thing) but I never got the chance to play with plugins and I’m using a windows machine so not much codes either any tutorial on how to install(Ok kinda had a look just dragged the files to C:\Program Files\KiCad\share\kicad\scripting\plugins and it wont appear in tools after rebooting the software) and play with them?

As I suggested, they will only work on nightly versions so that would be the first check. You then need to choose the ‘Refresh plugins’ from the ‘Tools’ >> ‘External plugins’ menu to get them to show up.

Otherwise, as I don’t have any Windows machines I can’t really advise, sorry.

What is that nightly build? could it be available for windows?

Nightly builds are development releases.
They can have bugs. They are not guaranteed to produce files that can be opened by the stable release. (Sometimes not even older nightly builds can open the files created by the current version.)

If you still want to play around with them have a look at the download page:
http://downloads.kicad.org/windows/nightly/

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Ok guys actually my bad I just had to drag the whole folder instead of the individual files into the thingy thanks for the help.