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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 10:27:48 -0500
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On 09/23/2014 10:08 AM, Troy Johnson wrote:
> What ended up solving the problem for me was drawing a square somewhere else on the board.  I then hovered over my newly drawn
> square, I pressed the key S to make it fill in, then I moved the square where I wanted it to be...

So you are using polygons and trace segments on the same layer and when filled it will short to traces it touches?
or does it still get clearance to traces when they overlap?

I have not done that where a polygon appears with no fill yet.