Someone help!
I have been successfully using layout for several projects now…several yrs…
Tonight, I spent 3 hrs to fix a part of the layout. I have several copper areas… When I started fixing /updating another part of the layout, I noticed all copper area becoming just screwed up outlines with thick lines!
Several attempts faile dto producxe correct copper zone …lost all the work because I thought by “discard changes” & reopening the file again would get me back to where I had last saved when everything was ok.
But no, all copper areas are completely screwed up. Even in the last saved version.
Even if draw a new one, ,it looks totally screwed up…
Any one knows what I would have done wrong while updating …I redrew edge-cuts, made some changes in the flex section of the design etc…but such changes before had gone on well in other projects…
Any help will be highly appreciated.
-r
Which version of Kicad? Which OS? Can you post a screen shot of what you are talking about?
You don’t have backups from the projects? I do not know kicad well enough but at least some files have also an previous version in bak files? Did you try to use those to replace the original ones? And I am also sure are the projectname-cache.lib and fp-info-cache needed?
Look in the left toolbar. Kicad can display zones in different modes. One of them is as a filled area, one shows only the outline you drew and one shows the outlines of the resulting zone polygon. (You selected the later.)
Thanks Rene.
In depth of panic, I lost sight of all.
Yes, somehow that button got “activated”.
Upon clicking it again- this morning , now, I get back the zones in filled mode.
Thank much.
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