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Welcome. See this FAQ on how to increase your user level to 1 to be able to post attachments:
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When you can post an attachment, zip up the project, and attach to your post. Also paste information about your KiCad install from Help > About > Version.
Then we can check if your problem can be replicated.
BTW are you one of those people who upgraded directly from v5 to v7? I can’t find those threads readily but for some people the presence of v5 config files caused problems with v7 operation.
The fix is to move the v5 and v7 user configuration (somewhere under %APPDATA% in Windows I forget where) out of the way, then run v7, accepting the default libraries. Any personal libraries should be registered again. Then you should have a fresh set up.
that suprise me. I am not jumping from V5 to V7 but some projects are “forgotten” and not updated while switching to new version of kicad.
Thank you for your efforts. So i do not need to report a bug but must search now whats going wrong locally. I will try to make a fresh installl of Kicad.
after deinstall & clean registry & clean filesystem & clean %appdata% folders i have reinstalled kicad.
Disabling other (may be…) disturbuing installations i have reduced the system path to the minimum
Path=c:\windows\system32;c:\windows;c:\windows\system32\wbem;c:\windows\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0
I have tried to open the pcb as poor as possible with
C:\Program Files\KiCad\7.0\bin>pcbnew.exe e:\KICAD\DuetWifi.kicad_pcb
now i got some hint more while “Loading PCB”:
“Unhandled exception class: class std::bad_function_call what bad function call”
pcbnew closes after that,
std lib comes from boost as far as i know but i have no more ideas to slove this…
v7 has some debug info gathering capabilities, hopefully one of the experts will explain how to enable that.
In the meantime, make sure all your system components are up to date, libraries, video drivers, etc.
PS: I did notice a popup on my system saying it was converting to polygons or something like that like other people reported. Edit: “The segment zone fill mode is no longer supported. Convert zones to smooth polygon fills?” Cancel/Convert
PPS: You can install v5, v6 and v7 alongside on Windows so if you are keen to get things working, you could open in v6, save, then open in v7. But it would be good to get to the bottom of this.
retiredfeline - after deinstall 7 then install latest V6 - i was welcomed with the message you mentioned at your last post. Saving each project and then open it with fresh installed V7.0.2 it is working again.
Glad it worked. I don’t think you need to remove v6 or even v5 in between, they are installed to separate directories in Windows; you just need to run the version you want.
about my understanding - Jeff has reactivated some actions in Kicad (next release) which comes up with same messages i have had in V6.11 about converting actions!?
I think thats a good behave about downward comapatibility because of some Projects can grow old before reactivation.
