Import v5.1.9 project to v6, Eeschema references positioned wrong

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Hi, I’m not sure if there is some new setting I have to adjust (mm vs inches?) but when I import some (not all) of my 5.1.9 projects to v6 The references and values of all the components are positioned very wrong. See images. Could this be a bug?

I noticed that all texts and polylines and all “GND” references are positioned correctly while everything else (component values and references) is aligned in those weird lines.

I’m on Debian 11 and built v6 from source via gitlab using cmake.

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[hermit]

You are now a regular user so some limitations are lifted.

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Oh and another thing I notice: value and reference of each respective component are at the same position. For example, the reference for “R1” and its value “100k” are stacked on top of each other, as are the reference for “R2” and its value “1k” etc.

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[eelik]

Can you attach the zipped project here?

EDIT: the original one, to try importing it to newer KiCad.

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Sure, however didn’t Kicad 6 already automatically generate some files inside the project folder? Is that okay? (I did not save the project after importing
yusynth_vca.zip (1.1 MB)
)

[eelik]

Copy the exact KiCad version information from Help->About->Copy Version Info and paste it here.

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Application: KiCad

Version: (6.99.0-144-g96c3ce14e4), release build

Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.5
libcurl/7.74.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1k zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.9 libidn2/2.3.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.3.0) libssh2/1.9.0 nghttp2/1.43.0 librtmp/2.3

Platform: Linux 5.10.0-10-amd64 x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, gnome-xorg, x11

Build Info:
Date: Dec 30 2021 10:42:56
wxWidgets: 3.0.5 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.24
Boost: 1.74.0
OCC: 7.5.1
Curl: 7.74.0
ngspice: 34
Compiler: GCC 10.2.1 with C++ ABI 1014

Build settings:
KICAD_USE_OCC=ON
KICAD_SPICE=ON

[eelik]

Strictly speaking you are not importing the project to v6 but to v6.99 which already has some changes in the file formats. Even though that’s not the probable reason, v6 isn’t the same as 6.99. I tried with 6.99 and didn’t see the problem.

[eelik]

Hah! I tried with updated code base and I see the problem! It’s certainly a bug. You should report it.

Application: KiCad Schematic Editor

Version: (6.99.0-162-g9e2487f89c), release build

Libraries:
	wxWidgets 3.0.5
	libcurl/7.74.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1j zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.9 libidn2/2.3.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.3.0) libssh/0.9.5/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.43.0 librtmp/2.3

Platform: Linux 5.11.0-40-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, KDE, x11

Build Info:
	Date: Dec 30 2021 18:46:27
	wxWidgets: 3.0.5 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.24
	Boost: 1.74.0
	OCC: 7.5.2
	Curl: 7.74.0
	ngspice: 34
	Compiler: GCC 10.3.0 with C++ ABI 1014

Build settings:
	KICAD_USE_OCC=ON
	KICAD_SPICE=ON

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Interesting. I rebuilt v6.99 today and the projects that had this problem before load fine now. I guess I’ll refrain from reporting a bug unless this problem reappears.