3D models not showing

arjunmnair · September 9, 2018, 4:53pm

Dear Rene,

Thanks for the reply. I did see your post earlier.

I deleted the files in “~/.config/kicad” and any remaining file from the KiCad 4 installation and then tried to install KiCad 5.

Another point is that I do not use any of the official libraries for my development. I didn’t even bother downloading them (or remove them from the global libraries instantly) until this issue. I noticed the 3D issue happening with my personal library, so, I removed and reinstalled KiCad to try to fix the problem. If I can find a fix to the issue using the official library then I can easily move to my own.

Regards,
Arjun

arjunmnair · September 9, 2018, 4:57pm

Dear Pedro,

Yes. I did try using the absolute path. Here’s a screenshot.

Regards,
Arjun

arjunmnair · September 9, 2018, 5:22pm

I launched KiCad from Konsole to check if there is any useful text output. This is the output.

I got the warnings.warn("wxPython/wxWidgets release number mismatch") when I launched the footprint editor. Is it relevant to this issue?

pedro · September 9, 2018, 5:58pm

I don’t know if this mismatch has something to do with this issue.
I don’t see why 3d viewer must be related to wxPython, but who knows.

My version has KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=OFF, that should only concern the python scripting tool.

Both the footprint and the 3d model are OK (My official libraries have been moved under /home). I’m sorry I can’t help you with this problem.

arjunmnair · September 9, 2018, 6:17pm

Alright. Thanks for having a look

I need to boot Windows just to use Altium. I just hope that I don’t have to boot Windows to use Altium and KiCad now

kammutierspule · September 9, 2018, 6:39pm

in the “Select 3D file” are you able to choose the .wrl and .step file formats? ( instead of * . * )

arjunmnair · September 9, 2018, 6:42pm

No. The drop down menu does not have any other options.

kammutierspule · September 9, 2018, 9:15pm

So there is some problem with the KiCad instalation of your distro. It is not installing or place the 3D import plug-ins on a place that KiCad is able to find it. I heard this plugins are from the responsibility of the packager creator, since there are some differences between Linux distros related with this paths. If your installed it from a package for your distro can you rise a bug to the creator of that package?

arjunmnair · September 9, 2018, 11:28pm

OK Thank you. I have submitted a bug report at : https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1107776

davidsrsb · September 9, 2018, 11:33pm

13,000 hits on that string on Google,all sorts of applications getting broken by distribution packaging errors.

arjunmnair · September 14, 2018, 8:07am

From the bug report, I got this solution :

Looks like the problem is due to KiCad looking for 3D plugins in /usr/usr/lib64/kicad
A temporary fix would be to create a link to /usr/lib64/kicad in the above path.

ogahslab · October 22, 2018, 2:57pm

Please house, I have similar issue. I am running kicad 5.0 on Ubuntu 18.04. When I tried to render PCB on 3d viewer only the pads and traces shows. The 3d components does not show on the board

hermit · October 22, 2018, 3:01pm

I’m not familiar with the packages in Ubuntu but the first thing to check is to make sure the libraries were installed. Just installing Kicad usually will not do that. I just checked my Debian package manager and the 3D libs are separate from the rest.

Quick edit. They also are not included in the ‘meta package’ because of the size.

ogahslab · October 22, 2018, 9:26pm

i am new to kicad. for me i thought the 3d libraries are install by default because the 3d modules are available as show:

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below is the version info

. thanks for your anticipating response

hermit · October 22, 2018, 9:47pm

Pretty is the footprint libraries. I know. I made that mistake too.

drwxr-xr-x 2 hermit hermit  4096 Aug 29 22:32 Battery.3dshapes
drwxr-xr-x 2 hermit hermit  4096 Aug 29 22:32 Button_Switch_SMD.3dshapes
drwxr-xr-x 2 hermit hermit  4096 Aug 29 22:32 Button_Switch_THT.3dshapes
drwxr-xr-x 2 hermit hermit  4096 Aug 29 22:32 Capacitor_SMD.3dshapes
drwxr-xr-x 2 hermit hermit  4096 Aug 29 22:32

ogahslab · October 22, 2018, 10:31pm

so, where do i go from here. when i tried to view my design, i got this

instead of the board with the components on it

hermit · October 22, 2018, 10:37pm

Search your system for the libs I pointed too. If they aren’t on your system you need to put them on. Again, I don’t know much about Ubuntu’s packaging but you might want to look at this.

ogahslab · October 23, 2018, 5:05am

How do I point to libs. I believe all the necessary libs are installed by default by using this approach to install kicad on my system:

sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:js-reynaud/kicad-5
sudo apt update
sudo apt install kicad

ogahslab · October 23, 2018, 7:41am

an this is my configuration variable
enviro

kammutierspule · October 23, 2018, 7:41am

Have a look on this thread on my question and the following answers:

The user solved the issue with KiCad 3D plugins.