Well that might be because the socket footprint has the wrong 3d model assigned. (I checked a random socket footprint in the official lib and that one at least has the _socket suffix also in the 3d path. So i guess you have your socket footprint from some other place or i was lucky with the random footprint i checked.)
Remember that the official lib does not claim to be complete. We have what has been contributed. If something is missing it is not because we don’t want it but because nobody cared to contribute it in a way that we can accept it. (Contributions to the official library need to follow the kicad library convention. We prefer quality over quantity.)
found a lib that works fine and has ic’s in a socket or standalone
i was to quick and did not preview the footprints before i saved them so when i got a 3d view of the board some where offset.
i corrected that and did run cvpcb (without changing anything)… recreated the netlist in schematic… read the netlist in pcbnew… but the 3d view does not update
i’m surely doing something wrong, but i have no clue what
i just rechecked… if i go to pcbnew and edit with footprint editor but click 3d view without touching anything the 3d view is not correct… but still if i click 3d view in pcbnew it does not update the 3d view…
picked another footprint and regenerated the netlist and then reread it in pcbnew and then change back to the footprint and reread netlist again made it work
now is there a quick way to change color of a 3d shape? i can use the same shape for about half of things but if it was easy i wanted to change the color to get a closer match of the org components
they all require milling and that is the problem i have now… as the dummie i am i look for a milling layer when i edit the pcb footprint, and then i googled and the best things is to use the edge cut layer
Yes sadly it is not possible to use the footprint editor to draw on the edge cuts layer. This issue is known but will sadly not be fixed until after the kicad 5 release (https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1251393)
Your only option is to draw on any layer and move the drawing to the edge cuts layer using a text editor. (I would suggest you use any layer that you do not use for anything else. This makes editing easier as you can then do a simple search/replace)
that worked and i’m down to 90 or so connections not done.
i have found out that like with everything commodore the schematic is not quite right so i will have to figure how to change it if needed to have it “sync” with the board. even thou the board i have in hand came from a repair place it was once working. it had a few cut tracks due to unskilled people working on it and all the holes plating had come loose, but good enough for a scanning and use as template. so in the end i trust the board more than the schematic.
i tried to make ground flood areas as that is used arround the edge of the board and under the video section.
i could draw the area fine but i tried to use keepout to stop the flood as there are some areas within the shape that is not to to be grounded. what is the correct way to do this?
what is ‘sprint layout’ ?
If you have jpg files only, those will not have XY co-ordinates needed for drill, but you may be able to extract vector info.
Gerber is vector based, so once you have that, you can start to match things up.
This post, suggests KiCad’s GerbView can export KiCad PCB files… https://groupdiy.com/index.php?topic=61324.0
If you have opened pcbnew (the board editor) from a KiCad project it doesn’t let you append a board (an artificial limitation IMO). You can try to open pcbnew as a standalone program, open the actual board, then append the other board, save, open again as a project. Save a backup first!
so what i did was use gerbview to open the drill file and then save it as a new board with the front adhesion layer
then i did as @eelik suggested and i was able to append the drill board to my working one
of course all the holes for the components covers the purple dots for the holes… BUT not the via and that was the most important thing, ie i want to check that i got all the via’s
so i spend some hours to get the last few connections done and fine adjusted placements of via’s
for some reason the board has 2 ic’s on it but its not to be found on any schematic
i found what they are in a spare parts catalogue and i think i can manage to make the few connections in the schematic by looking at the board
but i have found something very frustrating… it’s the 74ls02 symbol that comes with kicad. it has the power pins hidden and i need them visible as a seperate unit. i managed to make them visible.
but dont want the symbol that shows up on unit a-d
