In the attached project, I exported both F.Cu and Edge.Cuts into an SVG file and then re-imported it. It turns out this works as expected when the outline is a rectangle, but not when it is a polygon. For a polygon, KiCad draws a bigger filled rectangular thing around it. When I enter the group and move a corner of that filled area, I can see that both the copper and outline are under it.
I made this test project after seeing it first in the MP2-DFN and MP2-ESC projects Both these projects have already been in production, so apparently the Gerbers are OK when a polygon is used for the outline.
I am thinking about making a bug report for this, but I am having trouble with verifying this on V7.99. (It’s stuck on the version: Date: Jun 12 2023 16:03:36)
Is this still present in a current nightly when Edge.Cuts is a Polygon?
2023-12-03_asdf_dot_dir.zip (12.1 KB)
Application: KiCad PCB Editor x86_64 on x86_64
Version: 7.0.9-7.0.9~ubuntu20.04.1, release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.2.2
FreeType 2.10.1
HarfBuzz 6.0.0
FontConfig 2.13.1
libcurl/7.68.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1f zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.2.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.2.0) libssh/0.9.3/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.40.0 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Linux Mint 20.3, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, xfce, x11
Build Info:
Date: Nov 8 2023 19:01:27
wxWidgets: 3.2.1 (wchar_t,wx containers) GTK+ 3.24
Boost: 1.71.0
OCC: 7.5.2
Curl: 7.88.1
ngspice: 38
Compiler: GCC 9.4.0 with C++ ABI 1013
Build settings:
KICAD_SPICE=ON