Solder Jumper Thermal Relief Gap not Honoured

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When adding a filled zone (GND plane), the thermal relief gap on the GND pad of the Rounded Solder Jumper (SolderJumper-2_P1.3mm_Open_RoundedPad1.0x1.5mm) doesn’t seem to be honoured:

SolderJumperRounded

Switch to the non Rounded Solder Jumper (SolderJumper-2_P1.3mm_Open_Pad1.0x1.5mm), and it works ok:

SolderJumper

This is on the latest 9.0.1 build for Windows x64. I’ve also tried the latest Nightly, but it does the same.

No overrides are applied to the footprints. Is this a known issue, or am I doing something wrong?

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These are the Pad Properties for that footprint:

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So this is clearly by design.

You can change this in your PCB.

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Ah, so it is. How odd. I wonder why it’s been done like that.

Thanks

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You’re not doing anything wrong. This is a known issue that affects the RoundedPad version of the SolderJumper-2_P1.3mm_Open_RoundedPad1.0x1.5mm footprint in KiCad. You did the right thing by switching to the non-rounded pad.