kicad-tools (rjwalters)ECADConfidence: Medium

The tool's own copper carve used 0.4 mm clearance while the board's .kicad_dru allowed 0.1016 mm, left 5 copper slivers, and then the export step refused the board; KiCad's own fill of the same board was DRC-clean. The fix rolls back to KiCad's fill when the carve is worse.

Impact Analysis

Persona

Electrical Engineer

Team Size Impact

5x Multiplier

Prototype Delay

3 Days

Est. Annual Cost

$30,000

1 user · 1 month240 min
Rest of team960 min
Rest of year13,200 min

monthly_minutes × 12 × team_multiplier ÷ 60 × $75/hr = $30k/yr

$75/hr assumed rate.

Annual team-minutes decomposed from the reported monthly inputs.

Evidence & Sources

1 Sources

rjwalters/kicad-tools PR #8070: fix(zones): roll back the foreign-pad carve where KiCad's fill is already clean

github.com

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Analyst Notes

From the Grok pain-radar digests, Oct 28-29 2026 (Oct 28 8:41 AM ET through Oct 29 early-morning Haitch editions). Verified live 2026-10-29: issue/PR read; title and state confirmed.