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Cannot Open PCB Veiw in KiCad Project #10

Closed Tauheed-Elahee closed 2 years ago

Tauheed-Elahee commented 2 years ago

I cannot open the PCB view of the KiCad Project. I am using KiCad 5.1.10, released May 2021. The error says to use KiCad version with a date of 2019-03-11 or newer.

I am running Debian GNU/Linux testing/sid. I am using the flatpak version of the application. The problem also occurs on Windows.

Here is the error I get. image

mwelling commented 2 years ago

Unfortunately it is not easily possible to revert a design back to an older version of Kicad.

Can you try with the nightly build and see if it opens with that? https://www.kicad.org/download/debian/ https://downloads.kicad.org/kicad/windows/explore/nightlies

Tauheed-Elahee commented 2 years ago

I am using KiCad 5.1.10, it was released May of 2021 (this year). This is the latest stable release of 2021. The error asks for a version that is from 2019 or newer.

There are no nightly builds for debian.

There might sometimes some pre versions of upcoming releases available in experimental. These are usually no nightly but a RC (Release Candidate) versions!

I will try with Windows.

Can you update the project so that it works with KiCad version 5.1.10 (the latest stable release)?

Tauheed-Elahee commented 2 years ago

I changed to Still in Development (sid) branch on Debian and tried to use the release candidate on the repository it is version 5.1.12 the same error occurs.

mwelling commented 2 years ago

When I last updated the design it must have been on a compiled version on my old Debian 10 box. As you found it does not open with any of the apt install-able versions.

Looks like Ubuntu has a nightly PPA but Debian does not.

I don't want to waste time compiling nightly for Debian so lemme try windows.

mwelling commented 2 years ago

Was able to open in 5.99 in Windows, Saving new versions. Ran DRC, fixed a new errors, and repoured the planes.

Get KiCAD 5.99 running and it should open with it now.

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Tauheed-Elahee commented 2 years ago

Thank you.

I was able to install kicad-nightly on Debian GNU/Linux. Below are resources and the way I got it installed.

Steps:

sudo echo "deb https://debian.sur5r.net/kicad-nightly bullseye main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list   #check to see if it is there. Use text editor if it is not there.

/usr/lib/apt/apt-helper download-file https://debian.sur5r.net/kicad-nightly/pool/main/s/sur5r-keyring/sur5r-keyring_2021.02.02_all.deb sur5r-keyring.deb SHA256:cccfb1dd7d6b1b6a137bb96ea5b5eef18a0a4a6df1d6c0c37832025d2edaa710

sudo dpkg -i ./sur5r-keyring.deb

# install deb package from link above
sudo dpkg -i libglew2.1_2.1.0-4+b1_amd64.deb

sudo apt update

sudo apt install kicad-nightly

It works now.

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I can see why you chose to use the nightly versions. On first glance, the interface is vastly improved and looks like other professional EDA tools.

Is there a plan to move to the stable releases of KiCad once these improvements have been released into a stable release?

mwelling commented 2 years ago

https://techexplorations.com/blog/kicad/kicad-6-review-new-and-improved-features/#:~:text=KiCad%206.0%20is%20expected%20to,first%20major%20release%20since%202018.

Tauheed-Elahee commented 2 years ago

Looks very promising. I can't wait for it to be released.

Until then, can you add a line in the README.md telling the user of the repository to use the nightly version of KiCad for now and detailing how to get it or linking to this issue?

mwelling commented 2 years ago

Sure.