Filled zones - constraining to orthogonal, or at least 45° ?

[SiliconWizard]

Something that most other EDA offer, and I've used KiCad for a good while now, and have yet to figure it out.
Please tell me I'm missing something obvious.

When creating filled zones, polygon lines are only constrained to the grid, but not to any kind of angle. That is UTTERLY annoying.

With many other EDA, you can just press shift/ctrl/alt or whatever to constrain polygon lines to 45° or 90°. I tried all this in KiCad to no avail.

Tell me it was obvious and I missed it!

[Doctorandus_P]

In KiCad V7 on the left toolbar there is an icon to toggle to limit actions to horizontal + Vertical + 45 degree.

Also, in Preferences / Preferences / Hotkeys you can search for "45" and then you see that Constrain to H, V, 45 has hotkey [Shift + Space] assigned to it by default.

Also note there are some 200+ possible hotkeys in KiCad, and maybe about half do not have any key assigned by default. So it can be worth it to comb though that list if you find some function lacking a hotkey.

[langwadt]

 kicad 6

[SiliconWizard]

Thanks! Glad this was a case of me missing it!

Still on v6 here. I did see the option in the filled zone dialog, but then it would apply to the whole polygon of the zone.

I didn't think of looking in the hotkeys list. A lot of "hidden" functions here!

So Shift+Space it is. It toggles between constrained and not constrained, which is what I was looking for.