Assign a zone fill to multiple layers

[Kalle Hyvönen]

I think it would be very handy to be able to assign a zone fill to multiple layers at the same time. It is tedious to draw and separately move separate zone fills on multiple layers that still occupy the same physical area (like groundfills over the whole board on more than one layer for example). Should be a pretty simple addition.

[Dick Hollenbeck (dickelbeck)]

On 03/14/2012 04:51 AM, Kalle Hyvönen wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> I think it would be very handy to be able to assign a zone fill to
> multiple layers at the same time. It is tedious to draw and separately
> move separate zone fills on multiple layers that still occupy the same
> physical area (like groundfills over the whole board on more than one
> layer for example). Should be a pretty simple addition.

There is a menu choice to re-fill ALL zones, so I don't see any value in this request.

[Kalle Hyvönen (scorper)]

I think you misunderstood, I would want the functionality to make the same zone fill (same outlines) fill areas in more than one layer. That menu choice is not related to what I'm asking.

[Dick Hollenbeck (dickelbeck)]

On 03/14/2012 06:51 AM, Kalle Hyvönen wrote:
> I think you misunderstood, I would want the functionality to make the
> same zone fill (same outlines) fill areas in more than one layer. That
> menu choice is not related to what I'm asking.
>

"Same zone perimeter on more than one layer" is my revised understanding.

The use of the word "fill" confused me.

Fill is normally a verb. (Not to suggest that I use words normally.)

Sorry.

[Kalle Hyvönen (scorper)]

Yes that sounds more like it :) Would be a handy feature, on my current board I have some power traces ("fills") and I would like them to be replicated on all the layers, kicad does not seem to allow placing outlines on top of eachother so pretty tedious and difficult to create a separate zone fill for each layer.

[Dick Hollenbeck (dickelbeck)]

On 03/14/2012 07:32 AM, Kalle Hyvönen wrote:
> Yes that sounds more like it :) Would be a handy feature, on my current
> board I have some power traces ("fills") and I would like them to be
> replicated on all the layers, kicad does not seem to allow placing
> outlines on top of eachother so pretty tedious and difficult to create a
> separate zone fill for each layer.

As a work around, you can probably get this done by hand editing the BOARD file.

Anything in the

$CZONE_OUTLINE

$endCZONE_OUTLINE

is a zone. I'd be happy to refer this thing as a "zone", rather than a fill or zone
container.

Seems like all you have to change after copying this block of lines, is the layer number,
since a zone is earmarked for one layer.

Save your board file copy off in a safe place, then try it.

[Martin Errenst (imp-d)]

Putting this into the wishlist, it would be nice to have, but is no bug either :).

[Nick Østergaard (nickoe)]

When was this fixed?

[Seth Hillbrand (sethh)]

Wow. Thanks for catching that. I tried to get to "Confirmed."

[Steven Slupsky (sslupsky)]

Maybe another way to achieve a similar goal would be to allow a zone to be copy/cut and pasted?

[Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw)]

There is a duplicate function in the development branch that works with zones. Is that not acceptable?

[Ian McInerney (imcinerney)]

@Wayne, the "Duplicate zone onto layers" released in 5.1.2 would seem to be an acceptable solution for this, so this can probably be marked as fix committed.

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

@Wayne & @Ian, both those leave you with multiple zones, so if you need to edit them it gets messy.

[Michael Kavanagh (michaelkavanagh)]

"Duplicate Zone" is a workaround. This feature is available on other tools and IMO should remain open as a Wishlist item.

[KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor)]

KiCad bug tracker has moved to Gitlab. This report is now available here: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/1963