Pcbnew 'View->Flip Board View" option greyed out

[dbarron8888]

I can’t seem to find any information on what causes the “View->Flip Board View” menu option to be grayed out, either in the docs or on the forum. I’m working on a relatively complex 4 layer design and was working on the bottom side with ‘Flip Board View’ enabled (back side right reading), saved the design and exited, and the next day when I reloaded the same design in Pcbnew the design had reverted to normal view (front side right reading) and the ‘View->Flip Board View’ menu option is now grayed out and no longer available. Anyone know what controls the availability of that option?

I’m running:

Application: Pcbnew
Version: (5.1.5)-3, release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.4
libcurl/7.66.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1d (Schannel) zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.2.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.1.1) nghttp2/1.39.2
Platform: Windows 8 (build 9200), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
Boost: 1.71.0
OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
Curl: 7.66.0
Compiler: GCC 9.2.0 with C++ ABI 1013

Build settings:
USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
KICAD_SPICE=ON

Thanks.

[qu1ck]

This is weird. I can’t find any mention in code that this menu option can be disabled but maybe I’m not looking in the right place.
Can you post a screenshot of what that looks like?

Also you should update to 5.1.6

[dbarron8888]

Hi qu1ck, I think I found the problem. There were a few other strange things that weren’t working quite the way they were before as well, and when I started poking around in the menus I noticed that the toolset selection had somehow reverted to ‘Legacy Toolset’; when I reselected ‘Modern Toolset (Accelerated)’ then everything was back to normal. Perhaps I inadvertently hit ‘F9’ without realizing it, I’m not sure.

Anyhow, thanks for checking, and I’ll update to 5.1.6 as soon as I can, but it all seems normal just now so I’ll probably wait until I’m done this layout before making any major upgrades.

Thanks.