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hzeller / tmc2660-breakout

Little breakout board to play with the TMC2660 stepper driver
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Cannot open pcb file with Kicad 4.6 #3

Closed bogyxp closed 4 years ago

bogyxp commented 7 years ago

I get an error while trying to open the pcb with Kicad 4.06. Sais that the version the pcb was created with is newer than the one i have (which is actually the latest) Error loading board. KiCad was unable to open this file, as it was created with a more recent version than the one you are running. To open it, you'll need to upgrade KiCad to a more recent version. So i modified the first line of the pcb file and then i get an error: _PARSE ERROR: expecting learance,tracewidth,(...) in input/source (...)

Duckle29 commented 6 years ago

Get the nightly builds. Not even just to open this, but because they are much nicer :)

hzeller commented 6 years ago

I just tested with the now current stable version 4.0.7, that is able to open it @bogyxp .

Also, you might be interested in https://github.com/hzeller/quadrigotion which is essentially my follow-up project. But it is 4 layer, while this project here only needs two layers. (But that requires a nightly KiCAD build as I already have converted it to the upcoming 5.0 version of KiCAD)

nadavmatalon commented 6 years ago

Hi hzeller, I have version Kicad 4.0.7 installed but getting exactly the same error message as bogyxp above when trying to open the pcb design. Any suggestion how to sort it out? (I'm a complete newbie to Kicad :-)

hzeller commented 6 years ago

So the board was done with Kicad that I compiled on 2016-01-05, whatever version that was around there.

I can it open with a current 5.0.0 KiCAD as well, so maybe you should just get the current one.

nadavmatalon commented 6 years ago

Thanks for getting back to me.

Where did you get 5.0.0 from? All I see is the 4.0.7 version on the official website

Also, are you using Windows or MacOS? (I'm using the latter so maybe that's the problem)

nadavmatalon commented 6 years ago

Btw, forgot to mention, it makes little sense that something compiled in 2016 won't open on Kicad versions that came out much later (be it 4.0.7 or 5.0.0).

Any chance you might be able to upload the most minimal version of the schematics & board layout without all the extras and perhaps that will open correctly? (sorry, not sure what the correct terms are in Kicad for this but hopefully you get what I mean :-)

hzeller commented 6 years ago

I am using Linux and I just compiled it from source. There are no extras, this is just the minimal version. Given that this is 2 years old, you might need to do a little adjustments with libraries.

nadavmatalon commented 6 years ago

Ok, thanks.

nadavmatalon commented 6 years ago

Sorry, one last question if I may: could you please tell me what were the dimensions of the vias you used for this board (drill size & overall diameter)?

besi commented 4 years ago

Since this is now two years old I would suggest to close the issue.

hzeller commented 4 years ago

Also, it should be fixed with https://github.com/hzeller/tmc2660-breakout/commit/c7a9a22456cac7ffe0ac24dff0842ad8f5f2ad77