Pcbnew - X/Y coords mismatch - how to file a ticket with relevant infos

I just encountered an unusual behavior with an arc. As can be seen in the screenshot below, the X/Y coordinates are correct in the edit window, but the Start X isn’t in the main one. The arc has been there for some time, so no idea how and when this appeared.
If I delete the arc and redo it (0.5mm radius) the coordinates are all ok.
If I undo to the new arc to get the former one back, the mismatch is present.
So I’m a bit confused as to how to accurately describe and reproduce…

My Kicad version:
Application: KiCad Schematic Editor x64 on x64

Version: 8.0.6, release build

Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.2.6
FreeType 2.13.2
HarfBuzz 9.0.0
FontConfig 2.14.2
libcurl/8.8.0-DEV Schannel zlib/1.3.1

Platform: Windows 10 (build 19045), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
OpenGL: NVIDIA Corporation, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660/PCIe/SSE2, 4.6.0 NVIDIA 475.14

Build Info:
Date: Oct 14 2024 01:02:33
wxWidgets: 3.2.6 (wchar_t,wx containers)
Boost: 1.85.0
OCC: 7.8.1
Curl: 8.8.0-DEV
ngspice: 43
Compiler: Visual C++ 1939 without C++ ABI

Build settings:

I do not see anything wrong with the arc. Maybe you’re being confused by whether the arc is drawn clockwise or counterclockwise?

Do you mean the difference between the values in the left side panel (properties panel) and the values in the “track&Via properties” dialog?
This could be a bug, a discrepancy in values for the same object should not happen.

So I’m a bit confused as to how to accurately describe and reproduce…

Just archive the project with the “bad arc” (if possible delete all other unwanted objects as these would distract from the issue) and open a bugreport on gitlab. As this seems only a “display”-issue I think there are no steps needed how you got to that bad arc.

Do you mean the difference between the values in the left side panel (properties panel) and the values in the “track&Via properties” dialog?
This could be a bug, a discrepancy in values for the same object should not happen.

Yes that’s the problem.

Just archive the project with the “bad arc” (if possible delete all other unwanted objects as these would distract from the issue) and open a bugreport on gitlab. As this seems only a “display”-issue I think there are no steps needed how you got to that bad arc.

Will do, but without knowing how this happened it may be tricky to find the reason and reproduce. I’ll open a ticket with a copy of my project containing just the arc and two components.

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as information: the opened gitlab issue: Pcbnew: arc with wrong X-start coordinate in Basic Properties (but correct in Edit window) (#19215) · Issues · KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad · GitLab

May well be a simple fix, might just have simply passed a wrong variable to the code that handles the Properties Pane :wink:

It has already been fixed. The fix was 49 minutes after it was reported it on gitlab. Copy / paste from the gitlab issue: