I have a project with board that was initially produced by another person. I have edited the board to change some of the components and their placement.
The board has copper pours that no longer line up withe the placed components and tracks so I’d like to resize / re-shape them. What I can’t find a way of doing is to delete a section (where the outline is too complex) and replace it with newly drawn lines, without deleting and re-drawing the whole thing.
As an alternate to deleting a section being able to merge ajacent line sections into a single line (therfore reducing the number of points) would work too.
dumb question, did you use the “B” key(refill zones)?
Not pushing “B” after just about any copper change causes exactly … >> copper pours that no longer line up withe the placed components
… this.
A typical workflow for me is “disable draw filled zones” so I can look through the board, place and route.
Then “B=refill zones”, enable draw filled zones to see the resulting copper pour.
Quick question here, when I have a zone that is wrong I click on it and use ‘E’ edit key. From there I can move corners or mid sections using my mouse until all is well and then hit ‘B’ to refill the new layout, I have never deleted parts of a zone I just modify to how I want or delete and do it again. Just trying to understand your issue
When I do that either by single click selecting on the filled area (when drawn), or the outline when not filled and then hit ‘E’ I just get the fill properties page displayed where I can set the net, layer, clearence etc.
