Internal fill zone selection

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I’m using Kicad 8.0.7 with a four layer board. I have two internal plane layers that are power and ground. I changed the overall size of my PCB and need to change the fill zones. For some reason on my internal fill zones I cannot select them to change there size. I can’t select them to edit them in any way. I can create a new fill zone on top of the old one and it is editable. It there a reason that I cannot select the old fill zones in my internal layers? I can select fill zones on the top and bottom layers but not internal. Any help you could provide would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Brandon

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May be they are Locked and you have selecting of Locked elements switched off.

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Have you tried doing a long left mouse button click over the internal fill layer ? does the internal fill show up in the list ?

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more general advice if something is hard to select:

  • in the selection filter (bottom right on screen) select only the corresponding checkbox
  • determine on which layer the wanted items are located and make this the “active” layer on the right side Appearance panel
  • Switch to Dim/Hide mode on the Appearance panel (look at display options). With these modes the selection-algorithm takes only items on the current active layer into account
  • since kicad v8 the Search panel can also help to select something (useful to select footprints + zones + textitems)
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Thank-you all for your help! I have some how locked the fillzone. Not sure how I did that but as soon as I have the check box in the selection filter for Locked items checked, I’m able to select it.

Again, thanks for helping me!
Have a good day!

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