The wrl/step models doesn’t show up in KiCad. “Select 3D Model” is unable to even show a preview of the 3D model. The path ${KISYS3DMOD} is configured correctly - ‘/usr/share/kicad/modules/packages3d/’, and the package3d folder with all the 3D files exist in that location. The 3D models used to work fine till KiCad 4.x.x.
Also these 3D models work fine when I open them in other programs (like FreeCad).
Does anybody know what could be the issue?
System information :
OS : OpenSuse Tumbleweed.
Graphics driver : nVidia proprietary.
KiCad version : 5.0.0-1.1 from Opensuse Tumbleweed repository.
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.
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?
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.
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
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.