Simulation: DC sweep, sweeping 2 sources just shows one graph

Schematic Simulation (Ngspice)
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When sweeping 2 sources in a DC sweep analysis, I would expect many plots: one plot sweeping source 1 with source 2 fixed to the starting value, one plot with source 2 fixed to its next value, etc.

However, I only see the final source-1 sweep, with source-2 fixed to its final value (see image below)

How can I show the other plots?

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In de image above ngspice shows it did evaluate 1313 data points, that is correct (101 points for each seep of source 1, times 13 sweeps for each sweep of source 2).
I would just like to know how I can see the results.

These are my DC Sweep Analysis values:
Source 1: Source=V1; Start Value=0V, Final Value=1V, Increment step=10m
Source 2: Source=R1; Start Value=1, Final Value=4, Increment step=250m

This is with Kicad 8.0, the nightly of 2024-02-29, on Ubuntu 23.10.

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Thanks for the report. Seems to be a bug in Eeschema.
If you put

.control
set controlswait
print i(R1)
.endc

into a text box on the Eeschema canvas, you will see a printout with ngspice delivering all data, but Eeschema does not plot them.

I will provide a bug report.

Done: DC sweep, sweeping 2 sources just shows a single graph (#17215) · Issues · KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad · GitLab

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