New polygon workflow and moving component

[infinite.machinery]

With the new polygon workflow and commands I noticing this new behavior - If I have a poured polygon and when I move a component it leaves behind an outline of where the component pads were previous were located. What is the

purpose/meaning  of this? 

[andy.ball]

From the graphic in your image, it appears that you have set the properties of the Polygon Pour so that the fill is not shown (hidden).  We introduced this modal setting for a couple of reasons:

1. When you are editing other features of your board (or interactively routing) and you want relief from individual Polygon Pours that are obscuring your view.
2. When you have a large multi-edge Polygon Pour that takes several seconds to re-fill, and you wish to disable the automatic re-filling feature of the Polygon Pour.

Deselecting the Polygon Pour's show fill property allows you to "see through" the Poly Pour, and it also suspends its automatic re-fill, until you again select the show fill property.  I hope this helps.

[infinite.machinery]

Yes I have the polygon fill hidden because I find it very distracting when positioning parts and routing, just like I would in Eagle. Having the extra footprint left behind after moving a part is also distracting. Can there be a setting to not have this extra graphic?

[andy.ball]

We leave the display of fill edges around as a reminder that you are editing within the region of a Polygon Pour, the Polygon Pour's current fill results are out-of-date, and you should eventually re-fill the thing.  One way to completely remove the display of the fill edges, is to edit the Properties of the Polygon Pour, or use the Move command to "tickle" its definition boundary.

TBH, it didn't occur to me that display of those fill edges would be obstructive.  Perhaps the correct behavior here is to completely remove the fill edges when any edit gets performed that "invalidates" the Polygon Pour's fill data(?)  That's the best suggestion I can offer, short of inundating users with Polygon display options.

[infinite.machinery]

Is there a command I can use to refill polygons, so that I can avoid clicking through menus?

[andy.ball · Accepted solution]

Polyrefill - Re-fill all polygon pours

Polyhidefillall - Hide fill for all polygon pours
Polyshowfillall - Show fill for all polygon pours