Kicad v 6.0 - Footprint Generators panel is empty

[Sparky367]

I just installed Kicad v6.0 and I wanted to make a footprint for a buck converter using the Footprint Wizard. I saw online that I can configure from that wizard the number of pads, pitch, width, etc.
But when I opened it, the Footprint Generators window is empty. Do I have to do some additional steps?

I also used the “Update Python Modules” button but nothing happens.

If it’s of any importance I installed Kicad on the D drive. Don’t know if it matters.

[paulvdh]

I have not seen this before.
As far as I know those python footprint wizards are always installed.

What does it look like when you select the Messages tab?
For me it looks like:

Note that I’m using Linux, and that OS does not use drive letters.

[Sparky367]

This is how it looks on my side. It’s a Windows 10 machine. The paths are the same except for the different drives.

I checked now the first 2 paths and the scripting folder doesn’t exits.
I checked this path also C:\Users\username\Documents\KiCad\6.0\scripting\plugins and the folder is empty.
Is this a bug?

[paulvdh]

I found some scripts in:

paul@cezanne:/usr/share/kicad/scripting/plugins$ ls -hl
total 184K
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1,9K Jan 15 21:26 arc_test.py
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6,0K Jan 15 21:26 bga_wizard.py
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5,1K Jan 15 21:26 circular_pad_array_wizard.py
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  28K Jan 15 21:26 FootprintWizardBase.py
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6,6K Jan 15 21:26 FPC_wizard.py
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    1 Jan 15 21:26 __init__.py
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  25K Jan 15 21:26 kicad_qrcode.py
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7,8K Jan 15 21:26 microMatch_connectors.py
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4,7K Jan 15 21:26 mutualcap_button_wizard.py
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  14K Jan 15 21:26 PadArray.py
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8,8K Jan 15 21:26 qfn_wizard.py
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6,3K Jan 15 21:26 qfp_wizard.py
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7,7K Jan 15 21:26 qrcode_footprint_wizard.py
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8,8K Jan 15 21:26 sdip_wizard.py
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7,6K Jan 15 21:26 touch_slider_wizard.py
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6,1K Jan 15 21:26 uss39_barcode.py
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6,7K Jan 15 21:26 zip_wizard.py

For me,

/home/paul/.config/kicad/6.0/scripting

does not exist, It’s probably optional for extra stuff to be installed.
The other paths in

/home/paul/.local/share/kicad

are also empty on my system.
The script names in

/usr/share/kicad/scripting/plugins

are also the same as those footprint wizards, and it also makes sense to have them there, because they are a part of KiCad itself, and no user addons.

I have no idea why they are missing on your system (Or maybe the’re just misplaced? (Search for those file names). But the result for me is the same, I do not know How I could help further here.

[eelik]

This is from a nightly build lite installer, but IIRC the same is in the full installer, so try installing again.

[Sparky367]

Finally I reinstalled and now it works.
@paulvdh now I have the scripting/plugins folder populated with the same scripts from your output.
But when I first installed that option was marked. Actually I didn’t change anything during installation I left all the checkboxes as they were.