OpenGL canvas Update

[JuliaTruchsess]

@von_Whimhurst

That is not my observation. As I thought I made explicit and clear, I have tried to view the Footprint (all by itself & accessed directly from the current ‘nightly’ or ‘v5’ Library), which came from the Library with *.wrl association, and the component is NOT VISIBLE. And, there is no error message flagged by KiCad indicating a problem with the directory (such as “file not found”). So it seems to be finding the *.wrl file, but cannot display it.
In my experience, this behaviour is also true of viewing the footprint within the 3d Viewer of Pcb Layout Editor (formerly “PcbNew”)

I just went through the same thing and the problem turned out to be that I had not purged the KiCad files in my AppData\Roaming directory. After deleting all of my v4 stuff and reinstalling v5, models have wrl and step files, and 3D Viewer and 3D export both work. See What am I doing wrong - 3D - #14 by JuliaTruchsess

With regard to the original topic, in v4 I only ever used the default canvas because I just couldn’t stand the look and feel of the OpenGL one. Never felt I was missing out on any features. Now that I’ve switched to v5 I have no complaints; it’s vastly improved in many ways and I’m not looking back.