proportionally shrinking conflicting zones

[Simon Richter]

When two zones intersect, the zone with lower priority is shrunk to avoid a conflict.

It would be great to have a way to have both zones shrink proportionally, so e.g. if 1:1 is specified, the boundary for the higher-priority zone will go exactly down the middle of the clearance.

2:1 means that the zone specifying 2 will shrink 2/3 of the clearance.

0:1 means that the zone specifying 0 will not yield, even if it is lower-priority.

0:0 means traditional behaviour -- higher-priority zone wins.

[jean-pierre charras (jp-charras)]

Have you some example which shows this complicated feature interest?

[Simon Richter (sjr)]

Yes, makes it easier to create layouts for high-current applications by stacking zones that exclude each other.

In my example, I've subtracted half of the clearance from the higher-priority zone's coordinates so the insulation is placed roughly where the pins are, but ideally I wouldn't have to do that myself, but rather draw the boundary down in the middle between the pins (which is also where my grid is).

[KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor)]

KiCad bug tracker has moved to Gitlab. This report is now available here: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/2016