Filled areas logic

[phyaroslavtsev]

Hello everyone! I have some problems with filling zones. We work together with another person. He did the copper areas around LEDs but attached them to the wrong Net. When I am trying to change it, other copper areas disappear. That pad shouldn’t have any connection. Thank you

I can not load images as a new user therefore, some links here:

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[Rene_Poschl]

If you need a zone for a net then you should give it a name by attaching a label. The reason being that the automatic net-names might change over time.

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Also remember that you need to trigger zone refills if you change anything.

[paulvdh]

You have to accumulate about half an hour of “viewing time” to satisfy the automatic spam filter that you are a biological entity worthy of posting pictures.

This forum has a pretty extensive FAQ area (mostly writen by Rene_Posch, but also some other contributions) and this FAQ area has much more and more in depth information as the “average FAQ”.

So to gain some “reading time” have a look at:

https://forum.kicad.info/search?q=zone%20category%3A19

and:

How to create a power plane (using zones)

This article is about technical aspects of KiCad only, not about using GND or power planes in general. Working With Power Planes In short: KiCad uses zones for planes Zone is a copper area which can have an associated net and which can be filled automatically KiCad doesn’t normally fill isolated areas (and normally you shouldn’t even try that because it’s not electrically good) For a zone to be filled, a pad of the same net must be inside it or connected to it A via triggers filling, too, if …