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Fills not including pads

Asked by McAleister Billiams

HI there! I hate to be a pain, but I just recently picked up Kicad (Eagle was my first pcb design program). So far everything with Kicad has been great! However, I have recently run into a perplexing situation. I've created 2 ground copper fills, one on the back layer and one on the front. However, the fills do not visibly connect with the pads, no thermals, nothing, no matter what settings i seem to tick in the fill properties. I've made sure that the fills are connecting the ground nets, but they still seem to not actually connect to any pads at all. I've even tried running some vias from the grounds pads to the fills, and they seem to vanish from the final gerber files.

Here's one side of the board, according to osh park, for further reference:
https://644db4de3505c40a0444-327723bce298e3ff5813fb42baeefbaa.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/019e4ca5a2bdeb1edcd504fe53c83bc7.png

btw, I'm on windows 7, running kicad ver 4.0.1-stable

any ideas?
thanks again for your time, I do really appreciate ya'll and the dev'ing of this software!

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Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw) said : 		#1

I would need your kicad_pcb file to know for sure but it looks like you didn't select any net for your zone because I don't see any connections to the zone in your png image. In the future, please ask your questions on the user forum at https://forum.kicad.info/. More often than not, someone there will be able to answer your user questions. This is the KiCad developer's site and questions asked here should really be about KiCad development.

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