Hello there!
So I decided to return to Kicad 2013 since I find too many problems with footprint linking in the latest version. However, a new weird problem just appeared; the left pane you expect to find in CvPcb is now missing. Anyone knows how to “reset” the program so I get the three panes back?
care to elaborate? Just checked posts by you and this is your first… won’t you rather stick with the latest and supported version of KiCAD and get help there? A lot of stuff is just worlds better than the 2013 stable one - no kidding.
As for your problem… hm… you could check the settings files that reside here for the more current versions:
C:\Users\JohnDoe\AppData\Roaming\kicad
Hi Joan, thanks for your quick reply.
Well it’s my first post here but I’m no beginner with Kicad, perhaps I’m just too used to all quirks in v.2013. Over the past 4 years I’ve had more than 20 designs successfully manufactured without any problems and I use it regularly.
It’s hard to say exactly where it goes wrong with v.4, I always tend to get warning of missing footprints on github or having trouble to find the local ones.But that’s really my only issue with v.4.
Right now I don’t have time for troubleshooting so I thought I would just return to the old familiar 2013. But now that darn pane was missing! Found the settings file but I’m a bit unsure which entry to edit, any ideas?
No idea either re settings in there.
Some time ago I tried to play a bit with them to get my more recent CvPcb to be nicer on start up (changed some widths in there in the hope they would be used), but it doesn’t work.
You still got the 2013 installer around?
Might just be as easy as to find a machine it’s not been on, running the installer and overwriting the existing files in that folder with the ones you get from the fresh install?
PS: if you need setup help @keruseykaryu is pretty good at the github+local thing. I run KiCAD locally with my own libs only, so wont be a help there.
Yep, will try with a clean install now. Thanks / Cheers M
For old stable release if your OS is Windows, run regedit.exe. Find HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\kicad branch and delete whole cvpcb sub-branch. This will erase CvPcb window and panel widths settings.
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Hey keruseykaryu, great tip! Thanks /M