Printed silkscreen hatched area

[xavierw]

Currently, is there an easy way to create a printed hatched area on a silkscreen? For example, indicating part of the PCB where there are hazardous voltages.

You can do it manually, but it’s rather cumbersome and tedious and makes editing a real pain. It would be great if there was a kind of “copper fill” or keep out silkscreen equivalent where the user could apply a custom-defined shaped area with a hatched border around it or fill in it.

[Martin_Layley]

Sounds like a nice feature to request on the bug tracker.

/martin

[Timothy_Hobbs]

I don’t have access to kicad right now but I would try adding a hatched copper pour and then manually editing the file to move it to the silk layer.

No idea if this works but worth a shot.

Timothy.

[Joan_Sparky]

In regards to Timothy’s idea follow this link:

Copper pour with Hatched fill instead of solid fill

Hi! My first post here! I’m one of the “victims” of the videos Chris released some time ago. Got into KiCad and i guess i’ll stick with it, as it’s getting better and better in time. In my last board design i also wanted to use a few capsense buttons and encountered the problem of generating hatched zones. I used the free version of Diptrace to generate them. Apparently, despite the pin number limit in the free version you can still import a gerber layout and use an automatic pad detection, even…