I am using Kicad 8.0.4 (running under Windows 11) for a while now with a lot of satisfaction.
But on my latest project, I have very often a permanent crash in the PCB editor when starting “update from schematics” (F8).
2 LCK files remain in the project directory.
The popup window “update pcb from schematic” does not appear and the editor is hanging.
I assume that 1 (or more) components from the schematic are causing the issue, but I can not figure out which one could be the root cause. Re-installing the very first autosaved backup does NOT cause this crash. It is quite hard to figure out component per component to figure out where the issue would come from. Is there a way to enable logging to find out more details about the issue ?
Thanks for helping.
At minimum you might try upgrading to 8.0.9 as it was the last stable version of that branch if you don’t want to upgrade to 9 yet.
https://downloads.kicad.org/kicad/windows/explore/stable
Guys, I found the issue.
1 component in the schematic contained a footprint field entry that was incorrect.
The nickname to the library path was empty:
Incorrect footprint : L_0603
correct footprint : my_passives:L_0603
This causes the update pcb procedure to crash.
Maybe this is solved in a later version, but at least I wanted to let you know.
regards
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At least I can’t get 9.0 to crash with any obvious variant of your case.
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