I have been using the Simulator of V7.9.9 for a while (WIN10) and it was “stable”.
Now I was curious and switched to V8.0.0-rc2 (see version info below) and sometimes while “clicking around” in the simulator KiCad terminates completely.
Im sorry but I can NOT tell how to provoke this intentionally !
From that moment on KiCad will always terminate when I click on the simulator icon in the schematics editor !
However, I can stop this by deleting the .wbk file. Then the simulator window will complain but start and I can create a new .wbk .
Then everything will begin again…
Strange thing is: If I keep a copy of the .wbk BEFORE the crash and replace the “crashed” version this won t help. It seems the simulator NEEDS the process to create a new file ?!
I can’t reproduce the crashing (Windows nightly of today) by opening several Eeschema files, “clicking around” or running simulations.
Is this happening with a specific circuit input only? If yes, could you zip and upload the project, so that I can run it here?.
During installation, did you allow sending crash data to Sentry? This would allow anonymous debugging, at leat finding the crash source in the code, as your input file of course is not made available.
I have attached my file. It is a very simple test to evaluate undervoltage conditions for a bigger circuit. So no technical secrets to be hidden.
The simulation models I am using are included.
I can not be sure if there are external reasons for this problem. I use this Version on a company PC with lots of hidden background SW.
Right now I tried with a LOCAL copy (of the project, KICad is also on c:) on drive c: , same behaviour.
Oh, yes I allowed the crash report but I don t know if our network will deliver it to the outside ?
Oh my god, I apologize for this beginners failure.
I have SW that needs “.” and other that needs “,” . I will test immediately !
A failure Message/reminder would indeed be nice ! Thank You !
Sorry, Kicad crashes with . or , !
But maybe I have to delete .wbk one more time - stand by !
No, this won t work, actually, simulation does not start at all. There must be something else ?
OK, I created a new project and copied only the content of the schematic. Now it works again with a mix (!) of “.” and “,” !
I am completely clueless !
I may post again if I can offer some better information !!
I am no SW-Guy but from the error code I saw I assumed this could be related to my use of customized plot axis.
I simply deleted these settings from the .wbk file and my project seems OK.
But as soon as I use Y-axis settings the crash returns and stays !
I remove the lines again : KiCad runs without any other change.
Seems you have found the root of evil. That was Service far above any commercial product !