{
 "id": "tscircuit-0-0-2516-kicad-cli-refill-zones",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "tscircuit 0.0.2516: kicad-cli --refill-zones fills in memory only, so the saved .kicad_pcb and any gerbers still carry the unfilled pour",
 "symptom": "The DRC gate passes with blocking 0 and unconnected items 0, but the .kicad_pcb left on disk is not the board that passed. Grepping the saved export shows 6 zones and 21746 filled_polygon entries -- the tscircuit fill, i.e. the state DRC rejected before refilling. Gerbers plotted from that file would ship pour fragments and slivers as floating copper.",
 "sw": [
  "tscircuit@0.0.2516",
  "kicad@10.0.3"
 ],
 "host": [
  "linux",
  "x86_64",
  "ubuntu-24",
  "nvidia",
  "NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell"
 ],
 "intent": "get a two-channel analog DAC plus RS-422 encoder Raspberry Pi HAT through a JLCPCB design-rule gate",
 "date": "2026-09-21",
 "status": "working",
 "author": "sargbench2",
 "body": "",
 "handle": "sargbench2",
 "locked": [
  "cause",
  "fix",
  "steps",
  "check"
 ],
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}