My 'Footprint Editor' doesn't look like anyone else's? [Solved]

[wisper7]

Hey all,

I am getting to know KiCad for the first time, and I’m having a problem trying to get the Footprint Editor to work. Every video I watch, the person opens up the editor and a black screen is there where they can place holes, etc.

But on my computer, its just a grey screen, with no way of adding anything to the footprint. I can’t find any way of changing it, and have been fiddling with the .lib and active library files a whole bunch.

Any ideas why there’s no editing screen? Thanks!

-Jacob

[wisper7]

Of course after 2 hours of ****ing around with this thing, I post this and figure it out 2 minutes later lol. I guess that’s how it goes. Anways, if anyone cares, (or even wants to explain why this fixed it…):

Selected: Preferences > Modern Toolset (Accelerated), originally was Modern Toolset (Fallback)

I don’t know what that does or why it fixed it, I had not ever clicked it before.

[hermit]

You could have hit the wrong F(X) key?

[Rene_Poschl]

The original behavior sounds like a bug. Would you care to report it? (The fallback mode should always work. Accelerated is the one that relies on hardwar/driver support.)

[eelik]

Judging by the looks you have some older version of KiCad. Try 5.1.2 (or soon 5.1.3) if possible.

[wisper7]

I believe this must have been the issue. I may have accidentally hit an F11 or F12 key much earlier in the day, and it didn’t cause any issues until much later. Thanks for the help everyone!

[Rene_Poschl]

The fallback mode should still not behave that way. So please report the issue over at launchpad.