Kicad stable (pcbnew) crash on windows 10 (python problems)

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[solved] Can't run Pcbnew with Python 3.4 on Windows

I had a lot of trouble getting Pcbnew and the footprint editor to work, even in earlier versions from last year. It kept crashing and closing KiCad without error output. I finally found the solution by changing my default Python version in Windows 10 environment variables (PATH, PYTHONHOME) to Python 2.7 (previously 3.4). My issue is that I’m working with 3.4 on other projects and hate to have to constantly shuffle around my configuration every time I want to use one or the other software. Is t…

KiCad crashes every time when opening pcb file

Hi there. Yes I am a developer but not software, embedded hardware which means I do a lot of programming for non-PC processors and microcontrollers and a lot of PCB designing. This why I like KiCad. So I did look into BOOST libraries and the version I have is 1.60… maybe. It seems hard to determine since I never actually installed them specifically. I have almost given up on the latest version of KiCad on my Win7 64b PC but I thought I would try to use winbuilder to build KiCad myself. I got i…