Messed up kicad pcb new view

I was working in my design and suddenly the view changed and I can’t find the way to revert it the normal view.

Tracks do not appear solid and footprint are now not visible, any clue?

icons on the left side toolbar switch between sketched/unsketched view.

mf_ibfeew’s answer is for the tracks. The footprints may be something else.

I see you have most layers turned off in the Appearance Manager on the right side of the screen:

You can click on the “eye” to (un-) hide a layer.
You can right click to modify pre-set collections of layers.
The Appearance manager also has 3 tabs, the middle with Objects has settings for footprints and a bunch of others…

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Is it possible you hit ctrl+tab? That cycles through view presets and is an easy way to disturb your view settings from what you expect.

Your current preset is “All copper layers” which hides silkscreen, fab layers, footprint layers, etc. You can change your preset with ctrl+tab, or by going through the dropdown in the bottom right, just above the selection filter.

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That was it! thank you very much. I probably hit a hotkey by accident and I didn’t find the way to restore the view.

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