Hello, I’m trying to make a Beaglebone Black cape, and my Edge Cuts layer is not showing. I used the BBB cape template, and the template .kicad-pcb file shows the outline of the board, but after I created the schematic and imported the netlist in pcbnew, there are no Edge Cuts lines showing. Any new graphic lines I draw on the Edge Cuts layer disappear as soon as I click.
I tried creating a Gerber file and a .pdf of just the Edge Cuts layer using the plot tool, and the board outline and all my haphazard lines show up there. I can still find the lines if I open the .kicad-pcb file using a text editor, but I can’t see the lines to arrange my components on the board.
I tried to upload pictures, but apparently I’m too new of a user to do that so here’s a link to an imgur album.
I’m currently on Default, I tried switching the view to OpenGL, and that shows the lines. It does look very pixellated though, I assume the OpenGL viewer doesn’t support retina resolutions on Mac.
Also interesting, the scroll bars disappear or are non-functional when I’m using either OpenGL or Cairo.
Certainly looks like a bug. It could be related to your graphics card/drivers. Are you running the stable version? Maybe you should try one of the nightly builds.
I’m running the 4.0.0 stable version. I have successfully created a board already without running into this problem, and I can still see the outline of that board. I can open other files as well, and the outline shows up then as well.
Hmm. I’ve just tried starting a project from the BBB template as you described. I’m not having the same problem. I see some glitches with the default canvas when drawing lines but they look okay once I place the line. I have a very problematic graphics card&driver though.
I think I’ll just stick to the OpenGL canvas, it doesn’t make use of the retina resolution and scrolling and panning are broken, but the routing tool behaves much better and I can see the board outline.