Since few days I am designing relatively complicated footprint. In Preferences I set in Footprint Editor Default Values Line Thickness for Copper layer to 2mm and when opening editor next time it remembers it. But each time I open it I have to switch Appearance to Objects to hide Values and References that I don’t want to disturb me now.
Is there any way to set KiCad to preserve Appearance settings from session to session?
I’m using V 8.0.3 for Windows.
I don’t remember such problem from past, but I have never worked on one footprint with so many breaks in work.
A moment ago I thought that what I set in Preferences is preserved, but I just noticed that today I have to once more set the Preferences - Footprint Editor - Editing Options - Arc editing mode. So after changing this setting I closed all KiCad and opened it back. This setting is not preserved.
Is there any settings specifying which settings to preserve and which not?
Is there any settings specifying which settings to preserve and which not?
No. Normally all settings from the global Preferences should be saved and restored for the next kicad session.
Not saving (or loading) the setting for the currently used Arc editing mode is (most probably) a bug. At least the pcb editor saves/restores this setting.
And what with Appearance?
In PCB editor I have switched off visibility of some layers and objects and it is preserved.
But what I change in Footprint editor visibility of layers (I have checked only F.Fab layer) is not preserved. Is there any rationale behind different treatment of PCB and footprint editor or it is a bug?
regarding the appearance panel: I don’t know, but it’s different than the preferences settings.
- Preferences settings are saved globally for the kicad installation and should therefore reloaded at every new kicad restart
- settings in the appearance panel (pcb editor) are stored in the project settings - so these settings depend on your project and reflect the window state at the last saving.
- regarding the appearance panel in the footprint editor: I don’t know:
a) if these are stored at all
b) if these are stored globally (for kicad installation)
c) or if these are stored locally inside the project
According to your description I guess it’s 3a), but as said I don’t know this.
For a comprehensive answer this would need someone from the programmers team with inside in the code. (and despite my kicad developer icon I’m only a user, I don’t know how I deserved that icon).
It’s the “contributor” icon, not “developer”.
In a Text-Editor, you can Open the PCB file, a Footprint File and the Kicad-Pro file to observe Line-Widths.
I see (in v7):
• the Line-Widths in the Kicad-Pro file are from the Default setup
• the Line-Widths in the Footprint file (if having Edge-Cut in footprints) they will be as set in the Footprint
• the Line-Widths in the PCB file are as set in the PCB
Thus, you get what you want and they appear to remain in-tact…
Check it out and test for yourself…
(oh, regarding user name/label, I don’t know how I got “Leader”… I probably clicked something )
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