I’m using the Kibuzzard plug in, however every time I type in text nothing seems to happen. It says I have the plug-in installed:
But for some reason no text will come up regardless of what layer I chose or text that I put in. Not really sure what the problem is here.
Specify height and width > 0. After clicking OK a label will attach to your cursor and you can click wherever you want to place it.
Unfortunately, that didn’t seem to work either.
What numbers did you put in? Maybe you made it too small?
Did any error message pop up after you pressed OK? Did anything at all happen?
In general when reporting issues it’s much more useful to say exactly how things break then to just state that it didn’t work.
KiBuzzard uses the copy-paste buffer to insert generated label as footprint into pcb. After pressing OK in the dialog try opening notepad right away and press Ctrl-V, the footprint description should appear in text form.
Sorry, I realized I should be more specific as you stated. I set everything to 5mm, no errors popped up but I never realized that you had to press control V to paste the text! I use KiCAD for my projects and at work, and at work all I needed to do was just type in the text, set the size parameters, and click ok and it would show up. Seems on my laptop at home I have to do the extra step, but its working. Thank you!
No worries, glad you got it working.
KiBuzzard normally does paste operation for you. Curious why it doesn’t work in your case, maybe something to do with windows 11?
Someone had same issue before 6.04 - Windows 11 - No label is generated. · Issue #82 · gregdavill/KiBuzzard · GitHub
Which version of the plugin do you have? Try updating to latest.
I am Using macOS Ventura 13.2.1 with kiBizzard 1.3 I also tried 1.2, but I have the same problem as the OP. Nothing happens when I press OK on the KiBuzzard window.
Here is the log:
Path" instead
03-09 07:05:13 svg2mod-unfiltered 262:Found SVG layer: F.SilkS
03-09 07:05:13 svg2mod 263: Detailed names: [F.SilkS]
03-09 07:05:13 svg2mod 304: Inlining 6 segments…
03-09 07:05:13 svg2mod 339: Writing Text with 267 points
03-09 07:05:13 svg2mod 339: Writing Text with 11 points
03-09 07:05:13 svg2mod 339: Writing Text with 11 points
03-09 07:05:13 svg2mod 339: Writing Text with 11 points
03-09 07:05:13 svg2mod 1301:Font “Roboto-Bold” does not natively support style “Regular” using “Path” instead
03-09 07:05:13 svg2mod-unfiltered 262:Found SVG layer: F.SilkS
03-09 07:05:13 svg2mod 263: Detailed names: [F.SilkS]
03-09 07:05:13 svg2mod 304: Inlining 7 segments…
03-09 07:05:13 svg2mod 339: Writing Text with 315 points
03-09 07:05:13 svg2mod 339: Writing Text with 11 points
03-09 07:05:13 svg2mod 339: Writing Text with 11 points
03-09 07:05:13 svg2mod 339: Writing Text with 11 points
03-09 07:09:10 svg2mod 1301:Font “Roboto-Bold” does not natively support style “Regular” using “Path” instead
03-09 07:09:10 svg2mod-unfiltered 262:Found SVG layer: F.SilkS
03-09 07:09:10 svg2mod 263: Detailed names: [F.SilkS]
03-09 07:09:10 svg2mod 304: Inlining 3 segments…
03-09 07:09:10 svg2mod 339: Writing Text with 70 points
03-09 07:09:10 svg2mod 1301:Font “Roboto-Bold” does not natively support style “Regular” using “Path” instead
03-09 07:09:10 svg2mod-unfiltered 262:Found SVG layer: F.SilkS
03-09 07:09:10 svg2mod 263: Detailed names: [F.SilkS]
03-09 07:09:10 svg2mod 304: Inlining 9 segments…
03-09 07:09:10 svg2mod 339: Writing Text with 175 points
03-09 07:09:11 svg2mod 1301:Font “Roboto-Bold” does not natively support style “Regular” using “Path” instead
03-09 07:09:11 svg2mod-unfiltered 262:Found SVG layer: F.SilkS
03-09 07:09:11 svg2mod 263: Detailed names: [F.SilkS]
03-09 07:09:11 svg2mod 304: Inlining 12 segments…
03-09 07:09:11 svg2mod 339: Writing Text with 223 points
@B4ndris did you troubleshoot yours successfully? I’m having a similar issue (Windows 10, KiBuzzard 1.3, KiCad 7.0.1) and my log also has no errors. Unlike the OP, adding a manual pasting step isn’t fixing mine. I’ve uninstalled, restarted and reinstalled with no improvement also.
It is still the same issue. I tried the same things as you did without any success. The manual pasting isn’t working for me either.
Okay I’ve got it going, by downloading the newer version that’s avaiable here on github as a zip.
I found the installed plugin in the script directory, and deleted everything in its subdirectory (on my system that’s E:\Documents\KiCad\7.0\3rdparty\plugins\com_github_gregdavill_KiBuzzard but of course you’re not running Windows so it will be where you find it.
Once that directory was empty I copied the contents of the downloaded zip file there, restarted KiCad…and the script works.
Hopefully this works for you too. Cheers! Geoff
Thanks man! That worked for me as well.
The only difference is the location of the folder on MacOS: /Users/“Your Username”/Documents/KiCad/7.0/3rdparty/plugins/com_github_gregdavill_KiBuzzard at least with the standard installation, but you can also reveal it from the Plugin and Content Manager. The rest is the same. Remove the contents of the folder and replace it with the downloaded and extracted contents of the zip file from the link on the GitHub.
Cheers! B4ndris
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