Pad clearence hiding kicad 9

[Prashant_Bhatta]

I’m having an issue with pad clearance visibility in KiCad. Despite having “Show pad clearance” option checked in my preferences, I can’t see any clearance lines around the pads in my PCB design.

Here’s what I’ve tried:

1. In Preferences > Display Options, I’ve enabled “Show pad clearance” (checkbox is checked)

I’ve attached screenshots showing my settings and the PCB view where the clearance lines should be visible.

Is there another setting I need to enable, or could this be a rendering issue? Any advice on how to make the pad clearance lines visible would be greatly appreciated.

[kliment]

Clearances only show up on the active layer. Maybe you have a different layer selected?

[jmk]

Check: Board Setup > Design Rules > Net Classes > Clearance

If this is set to 0 there will be no clearance, hence no lines.

[Prashant_Bhatta]

No the clearance is not zero.

[Prashant_Bhatta]

I have f.cu. layer as active layer you can see in the post, other layers are dimmed below.

[der.ule]

Please use the “Help->About KiCad->Copy KiCad version” button and post your KiCAD information here, in case of v9, have you try RC1 and/or RC2 ?

[Prashant_Bhatta]

Application: KiCad PCB Editor x64 on x64

Version: 9.0.0, release build

Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.2.6
FreeType 2.13.3
HarfBuzz 10.2.0
FontConfig 2.15.0
libcurl/8.11.1-DEV Schannel zlib/1.3.1

Platform: Windows 11 (build 26100), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
OpenGL: ATI Technologies Inc., AMD Radeon™ Graphics, 4.6.0 Compatibility Profile Context 24.9.1.240813

Build Info:
Date: Feb 19 2025 17:46:53
wxWidgets: 3.2.6 (wchar_t,wx containers)
Boost: 1.86.0
OCC: 7.8.1
Curl: 8.11.1-DEV
ngspice: 44
Compiler: Visual C++ 1942 without C++ ABI
KICAD_IPC_API=ON

Locale:
Lang: en_US
Enc: UTF-8
Num: 1,234.5
Encoded кΩ丈: D0BACEA9E4B888 (sys), D0BACEA9E4B888 (utf8)

[nickmBY]

Are you aware, that pad clearance is only visible during routing?

[Prashant_Bhatta]

Issue created and solved here