[SOLVED] Cannot load schematics

[GB619]

Hi All,
I’d like to report an issue here: I’m not able to open a schematic because Kicad tells me that schematic was created with a more recent version, but indeed I installed the last Kicad 7.0.6.
Application: KiCad x64 on x64

Version: 7.0.6, release build

Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.2.2
FreeType 2.12.1
HarfBuzz 6.0.0
FontConfig 2.14.1
libcurl/7.88.1-DEV Schannel zlib/1.2.13

Platform: Windows 10 (build 19045), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW

Build Info:
Date: Jul 6 2023 04:56:45
wxWidgets: 3.2.2 (wchar_t,wx containers)
Boost: 1.81.0
OCC: 7.6.3
Curl: 7.88.1-DEV
ngspice: 40
Compiler: Visual C++ 1936 without C++ ABI

Build settings:
KICAD_SPICE=ON

I got the project here:
demos/pic_programmer · master · KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad · GitLab

Thank in advance for help
GB

[pedro]

Open the schematic file with a text editor.
The schematic may have been done with a nightly version, 7.99 the future v8.0

[jmk]

Hello @GB619

That link you show is to a correction, by a developer, in the source code for a demo project.

For the real project, open Kicad, go to File > Demo Project then select that project from the list.

[GB619]

Hello @jmk
Thank you, I thought that it was the repository for real demo projects.

Thanks!
Regards
GB619

[davidsrsb]

It is the repository, but you probably looked at Master, when you should have looked at the 7.0 branch

[paulvdh]

Yes, has “master” in it’s URI string, so that seems logical.

It is also a bit of a weird demo project. It’s not a particularly well designed PCB.

It’s a double sided PCB, but most tracks are on the underside and completely unnecessary cut the GND plane to pieces. It’s also a quite big PCB that is mostly empty. It’s likely from one of Charras’ students and made 20+ years ago.

@GB619
For some more complex (and also well designed) KiCad projects, have a look at:

Made-with-kicad

[GB619]

Hello @paulvdh,
thanks for the tip!
I see many interesting projects there.

Regards