I have created the board outline (edge cuts), placed a few components on the board, and created a copper fill zone and associated it with the GND net. The filled zone appears as a cross-hatched area, but how can I view the actual copper pour? I can’t seem to find anything that works.
Thanks!
PCB Editor / View / Drawing Mode / Draw Zone Fills, and it also has an icon on the toolbar on the left. But if zones are not filled, the edges appear hatched, but not cross hatched.
It is possible that the actual copper is a hatch pattern, if so, you can adjust it in the properties of the zone.
If none of the above helps, then start by posting a screenshot.
This is what I see.
Hit the ‘B’ key to re-calculate and fill the zone?
That screenshot helps.
First, it’s not cross hatched, that is a bit different:
Second, your lines are from the lower left to the upper right, that’s a different direction then used in zones (And your zones are also filled according to the icon in the left toolbar). The color in your screenshot is a bit off, but I think it is a Rule Area instead of a zone. I have shown a screenshot of the zone properties below. The properties window of a rule area looks like:
I clicked on the 7th button down on the right side, which says ‘Add filled zone’, and then it gave me the window where I could associate it with a net.
This is what I see when I click on the ‘Add filled zone’ button. I have associated the filled zone with the GND net.
I have tried ‘CTRL-B’ and nothing seems to happen.
I see now from the properties panel of your earlier screenshot that the selection is indeed already a copper zone. In your later screenshot I see the “shape / Outline display” is set to fully hatched. If I do that, I still see the hatch lines in the other diagonal direction. Weird.
Re-filling a zone and calculating internal zone geometry is with the B hotkey, not [Ctrl + B].
OMG. All I had to do was to hit the ‘B’ key? I saw a post that said ‘CTRL-B’ . . .
Thanks. This got me what I needed. I can’t believe I had missed this so badly.
