When I want to use distance measurement, I get the following answer
(measurement tool not available in legacy toolset)
Thanks for your help
I guess the category of this post is layout.
Press F11 to switch to the modern toolset. You are now using the old one still available in some versions.
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I am using the latest version.I pressed f11, it didn’t work.
As the message indicates, you are probably using the legacy toolset, using the accelerated modern toolset requires a graphic card capable of that, if you don’t have one, use the fallback mode (F12) and then it should work.
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when i do so my computer does not respond, freezes
To be able to use the modern toolsets your computer must support opengl >= 2.1
Otherwise, you will be constricted to the legacy canvas.
A way to make measures is reseting the local coordinates: with the cursor at any point, press the spacebar. The local origin is set to (0,0) at that point. Moving the cursor you will see the distance from the local origin.
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No, they will be restricted to modern toolset fallback mode (F12). Legacy is really only an option on a handful of platforms and i suspect will fully go away with version 6.
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But they have just said that using F12 freezes their computer…
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Legacy has been completely removed in v6, and the canvases are known as “accelerated” and “fallback” now.
But this should not happen right ? I man, fallback should always work ?
@sabri please let us know you exact KiCAD version Help->About KiCad->Copy Version Info
Do you have hardware (or similar symptoms) as described on:
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Application: KiCad
Version: (5.1.6)-1, release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.4
libcurl/7.66.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1d (Schannel) zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.2.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.1.1) nghttp2/1.39.2
Platform: Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1), 32 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
Boost: 1.71.0
OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
Curl: 7.66.0
Compiler: GCC 9.2.0 with C++ ABI 1013
Build settings:
USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
KICAD_SPICE=ON
When I pressed f12 the problem was fixed.
I was pressing f11 before, so it was freezing.
thank you all
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