Hello,
using KiCad 6.0.0 on Ubuntu, I have a question about creating a power plane.
Usually when I draw several planes (same net) touching any side each other, KiCad was merging them after a DRC run. Now in 6.0.0 this is not the case. Is this a normal behavior now and will it create any problems during production?
Thanks in advance…
Do you mean zones? So that two zones were merged into one zone object, while they are now two separate objects?
I don’t see why it would be a problem for manufacturing. They will be two gerber objects, but it’s normal to have overlapping objects anyway.
According to my understanding overlapping items at cooper layer are not a problem (tracks overlap with pads since always). That layer is raster-photo-plotted I think. Any pixel plotted twice is still simply plotted.
@eelik, yes I meant zones. I think also it will be not a problem, will see in the gerbers later what the output is.
I usually draw several simple zones to get one complex zone. That worked fine for me. It would be good to be able to combine them, then the screen would not have too may boundary lines and looks more cleaner.
Is KiCad still able to merge touching or overlapping zones when they have the same net on the same layer with the same priority? Is there still an option for that or was it removed? In my version it seems not working and I have all the boundary lines visible, which are actually not boundary lines after merging.
You have to invoke zone merging manually. Select both zones, right-mouse-click → getting context-menu → entry zones → Merge zones
Thanks, this was what I am looking for. At least it is still possible.
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