[Solved] Problem with zones and vias/pad through hole

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I’ve imported a brd file from Eagle because I’ve some problems generating the gerber files and kicad was able to open the project and export gerber file almost fine (better than eagle).

The only issue I’m having, is in all GND vias or pad, as you can see in the picture:

It’s happening in the components, connectors and vias.

I know it’s in the zones layer, because when I uncheck the Filled areas in zones in 3D Display Options the “X” disappear.

There an option to avoid this?

The zones was the only thing I’ve to do again when I imported the project.

I’m using kicad 4.0.7

I’ll appreciate any help with this little problem

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In the 3D veiwer, go to “Preferences / Render Options / Show holes in zones” it should be ticked, once that is done it will show correctly, but does significantly increase the rendering time on high complexity projects (e.g. my 4 layer, 6000 track segment board changes from 4s to 10s to render.)

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Thanks @Rerouter it was really easy to solve

I don’t have a complex project so I didn’t note a difference. :+1: