Re: [Kicad-developers] automatic zone merging - question?

2016-01-12 Thread Chris Pavlina
I think it's just a UI/usability thing. Drawing a new section of zone intersecting the first is a significantly easier way to add area to a zone than the alternative (which as far as I'm aware is just to "Create Corner" a bunch of times and drag the corners). TBH I've never personally needed

Re: [Kicad-developers] automatic zone merging - question?

2016-01-12 Thread Tomasz Wlostowski
On 12.01.2016 17:31, Chris Pavlina wrote: > TBH I've never personally needed overlapping zones of the same net, > layer, and priority myself, though - I'm sure if I ever encountered such > a need, I'd find it very annoying. ;) Hi Chris, I often need overlapping zones for complex split planes

[Kicad-developers] automatic zone merging - question?

2016-01-12 Thread Tomasz Wlostowski
Hi, When one draws a copper zone over another zone (with the same net, and the same layer), the two zones are automagically merged in the default canvas. This is sometimes not desired - at least by me (example: repeated layout blocks with overlapping zones). Is there a non-obvious reason why

Re: [Kicad-developers] automatic zone merging - question?

2016-01-12 Thread jp charras
Le 12/01/2016 17:28, Tomasz Wlostowski a écrit : > Hi, > > When one draws a copper zone over another zone (with the same net, and > the same layer), the two zones are automagically merged in the default > canvas. This is sometimes not desired - at least by me (example: > repeated layout blocks