No Plugin Icon in PCB Editor after installation

[witenitenz]

Hi,
I attempted to install a plugin in the PCB Editor. The plugin is for PCBWay and should help automate the production of suitable Gerber files and send them to the fabricators. I used the instructions found here:

PCBWay Plug-In for KiCad - News - PCBway

I have restarted Kicad several times since, and also done a machine reboot. Unfortunately I still see no PCBWay icon in the PCB editor, as seen on the website above. Is there a step I’m missing somewhere?

The plugin is definitely installed, as seen in the image below:

Version Info:
Application: KiCad PCB Editor

Version: 6.0.7-f9a2dced07~116~ubuntu20.04.1, release build

Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.5
libcurl/7.81.0 OpenSSL/3.0.2 zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.9 zstd/1.4.8 libidn2/2.3.2 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.3.2) libssh/0.9.6/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.43.0 librtmp/2.3 OpenLDAP/2.5.13

Platform: Linux 5.15.0-47-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, ubuntu, x11

Build Info:
Date: Jul 26 2022 19:32:41
wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.24
Boost: 1.71.0
OCC: 7.5.2
Curl: 7.84.0
ngspice: 36
Compiler: GCC 9.4.0 with C++ ABI 1013

Build settings:
KICAD_USE_OCC=ON
KICAD_SPICE=ON

[qu1ck]

In pcbnew preferences go to action plugins panel and see if the plugin is listed there. Maybe you have to enable the button. If it’s not there then there should be a yellow warning sign button, click it and copy paste the text here.

[Keonte45]

You just need to enable the plugin.

[witenitenz]

Thanks. I took a look and nothing is listed, but yest there is the yellow triangle. Here is the response I get when I click it:

File “/usr/lib/python3.8/importlib/init.py”, line 127, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
File “”, line 1014, in _gcd_import
File “”, line 991, in _find_and_load
File “”, line 975, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File “”, line 671, in _load_unlocked
File “”, line 848, in exec_module
File “”, line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
File “/usr/share/kicad/scripting/kicad_pyshell/init.py”, line 20, in
import wx
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/wx/init.py”, line 12, in
version = wx.version.VERSION_STRING
AttributeError: partially initialized module ‘wx’ has no attribute ‘version’ (most likely due to a circular import)

---

File “/usr/lib/python3.8/importlib/init.py”, line 127, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
File “”, line 1014, in _gcd_import
File “”, line 991, in _find_and_load
File “”, line 975, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File “”, line 671, in _load_unlocked
File “”, line 848, in exec_module
File “”, line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
File “/home/graham/.local/share/kicad/6.0/3rdparty/plugins/com_gitlab_dennevi_Board2Pdf/init.py”, line 1, in
from .board2pdf_action import board2pdf
File “/home/graham/.local/share/kicad/6.0/3rdparty/plugins/com_gitlab_dennevi_Board2Pdf/board2pdf_action.py”, line 7, in
import wx
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/wx/init.py”, line 12, in
version = wx.version.VERSION_STRING
AttributeError: partially initialized module ‘wx’ has no attribute ‘version’ (most likely due to a circular import)

---

File “/usr/lib/python3.8/importlib/init.py”, line 127, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
File “”, line 1014, in _gcd_import
File “”, line 991, in _find_and_load
File “”, line 975, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File “”, line 671, in _load_unlocked
File “”, line 848, in exec_module
File “”, line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
File “/home/graham/.local/share/kicad/6.0/3rdparty/plugins/org_openscopeproject_InteractiveHtmlBom/init.py”, line 6, in
import wx
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/wx/init.py”, line 12, in
version = wx.version.VERSION_STRING
AttributeError: partially initialized module ‘wx’ has no attribute ‘version’ (most likely due to a circular import)

[qu1ck]

You have a problem with your wxpython installation. Did you by chance install anything manually with pip? Remove any such packages and leave only system wxpython. You can also try reinstalling python-wxgtk3.0.