KiCad

Zone outline slope is always arbitrary

Bug #1655073 reported by Alex on 2017-01-09

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	KiCad	Fix Released	Medium	Jeff Young

Bug Description

Zone outline selection box has no effect. Selecting H,V or 45 degrees does not work.

Application: kicad
Version: (2017-01-07 revision 44cc728)-master, release build
Libraries: wxWidgets 3.0.2
           libcurl/7.38.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1t zlib/1.2.8 libidn/1.29 libssh2/1.4.3 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
- Build Info -
wxWidgets: 3.0.2 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
Boost: 1.55.0
Curl: 7.38.0
KiCad - Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 with C++ ABI 1002
        Settings: USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
                  USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
                  KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
                  KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
                  KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
                  BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
                  KICAD_USE_SCH_IO_MANAGER=OFF
                  KICAD_USE_OCE=OFF

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Alex (otteq) on 2017-01-10

tags:

added: pcbnew

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Nick Østergaard (nickoe) wrote on 2017-01-25:

I don't understand the issue, can you try to make an illustration or describe it in more detail?

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Alex (otteq) wrote on 2017-01-26:

Zone outline slope selection Edit (78.5 KiB, image/png)

In PCBnew when trying to create a fill zone (copper pour) you have the option to select the slope of the outline. Most times it needs to be square (by which I mean all corners at 90 degrees regardless of shape). For this there is a dropdown menu called zone outline slope where there are 2 options: "arbitrary" and "H,V or 45 degrees".

This option basically means that when you move the cursor after you start the fill zone its outline either follows the cursor or it stays "H,V or 45 degrees". I'm not at home but I found a screenshot of the dialog in question. Please see the attached picture. The bug I'm reporting is related to the menu that is circled in red. That menu has no effect. I only tested this in the opengl canvas.

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Jeff Young (jeyjey) wrote on 2018-02-20:

Yes, this is a regression (works fine in Legacy).