Hello, I hope there is someone with a little more experience than me that will take an interest in my issue.
I am trying to use KiKit to panelize a pcb. I have done this before, in fact, just yesterday. Today,when I hit the Panelize key, KiCad crashes.
I have not made any changes to the software between yesterday and today–no updates to my operating system or KiCad or KiKit.
I using Linux Mint 20.3 (Cinnamon) and KiCad 7.0.2. I have successfully used KiKit since I upgraded to 7.0.2.
KiKit fails on the simplest operation–starting with an empty project, start the KiKit plugin and select a pcb file on the menu (I’m testing with the PicProgrammer demo pcb); Then press Panelize with no other customizations–the “processing” message box shows up for a few seconds and then KiCad crashes.
I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling both KiCad and KiKit.
uninstalled KiCad with sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove kicad
uninstall KiKit by deleting contents of ~.local\lib
(KiKit seems to reload from cached version)
Installed KiCad with sudo apt install --install-recommends kicad
and KiKit with pip3 install kikit
Added the Plugin and Libraries from KiCad plugin manager.
I freshly installed KiCad and KiKit in a Windows Virtual environment and KiKit worked fine.
I freshly installed KiCad and KiKit in a Virtual Linux Mint environment and it failed in the same way.
Does anyone have any advice of what I can try to solve the KiKit problem?
I should note that I have used python scripts of my own writing in KiCad with mixed success. I would also comment that KiCad seems to crash pretty often on my system–especially shortly after I run a script. The script will do what it’s supposed to do and everything will seem fine, but a few minutes later, when I do something like save the file the whole program crashes. I’ve learned to save my projects often.