I was wondering if anyone knows what is happening in the picture below, in which the 3d viewer is showing measurements that were previously deleted in the PCB layout and weird shadows from some components.
I have many LEDs that were placed a few months ago that show these shadows in the viewer; they are now offset because I moved around the board coordinates. I added more LEDs later, which don’t have these shadows, and I’m unfortunately not aware if the old LEDs were placed in an earlier version of Kicad or not (I’m using v8 right now). The files state that I can’t open them in Kicad v7, so I don’t think this is the issue.
There were some measurements that I added temporarily a while ago, which never got removed from the 3d viewer when they were deleted from the layout. Is this a known bug? Perhaps they still exist and I don’t know how to access them in the layout? I would like to remove or at least move the shadows so that I can take a screenshot of the board in the viewer. Thank you in advance for any help!
(I will add more detailed pictures if asked, I’m only allowed to post one picture as a new forum user)
In seriousness though, if things are showing up in the 3d view that are not on your board, archive the project and report a bug through the Help menu (Help->Report bug)
I see this is marked as solved but it just ain’t enough.
How did a map of a portion of California end up on some of the layers in a PCB design file. I have never embedded a terrestrial map of any kind in my PCB designs. Have I been doing it wrong all along?
My partner on the project took care of this and did an astounding job. Unfortunately, it seems to be a bit of a lost art which I will need to recreate myself soon. I asked him how he did it and he stated:
He found a website that shows roads in black and white (I’m pretty sure https://snazzymaps.com/ from the style, I started looking into this part). The website didn’t allow exporting vector files, so he took screenshots and stitched them together, removed the background, and sent it to the kicad graphic importer. Apparently the coastline was also part of the map, which he seems to worked on slightly separately from the roads.
That’s all I know about this at the moment, but I will write the process down somewhere once I fully figure it out (probably in the repo below). The project is an LED traffic map of LA; if you’re interested you can take a look at it here: GitHub - zinkwazi/traffic-pcb-sb . It is quite mature now, and I will be moving onto San Francisco soon.
