I'm building impedance coupons for some layer heavy boards and when I try to copy multiple zones from one board to another to expedite and avoid manually building zones for each layer, kicad crashes but only in the window I am copying from.
If there are any tips or tricks on how to expedite zone building so I don't either need to manually plot board corners, or wait for the refill of zones which takes 5+ minutes each time after I copy from another layer, would be much appreciated.
Application: Pcbnew
Version: (5.99.0-168-g4bf2b6a9f), release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.4
libcurl/7.64.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1b zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.1.1 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.1.1) libssh2/1.8.1 nghttp2/1.36.0
Platform: Linux 5.0.4-arch1-1-ARCH x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
Build date: Sep 27 2019 21:57:44
wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 2.24
Boost: 1.69.0
OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
Curl: 7.64.0
Compiler: GCC 8.2.1 with C++ ABI 1013
Build settings:
KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
KICAD_SPICE=ON
The quickest workaround I can think of is to unfill the zones before copying.
The crash should not happen period, so we'll look to see if we can recreate that. But working with unfilled zones will speed up your process.