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  1. Bug #1823087
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 1823087

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Rene Poeschl (poeschlr) wrote : Re: Was the zone fill option removed on purpose?

Back to the original topic:

It is not true that refilling the zone in 5.1 will result in it being converted to polygon fill.

Also note that even 5.1 still exports segmented fill zones as overlapping lines:

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Version 4.0.6 project and export + screenshot in kicads gerbviewer (from version 4)

<a class="attachment" href="//kicad-info.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/2X/d/daba63a51b050da50d83e5a15b1c794ed890f838.zip">test_zone_fill.zip</a> (203.6 KB)

https://kicad-info.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/2X/7/7269096424b24d8d1f684d16ccf22f439d3fa1f8.png

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Version 5.1 gerber and again a screenshot of the gerbers (made again in the version 4 gerber viewer to ensure all other settings are equal)

<a class="attachment" href="//kicad-info.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/2X/8/853ec72dbdb290e7167b0364b04786bc0178af91.zip">gerber_v5.1.zip</a> (2.5 KB)

https://kicad-info.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/2X/5/521427579cde4acb6cdcc26332b288f4c34df666.png