[SOLVED] Pcb arc trouble

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I wanted to let someone know of a possible program problem… I am making some cutout slots with 1/2 circle ends on a user drawing layer (it really does not matter what layer you draw them on). Anyway, when I draw an arc angle of 180 degrees. It will let me do it, but if I edit it to change the arc width or anything else, even if I I don’t change anything and only click OK, it gives me an error like this… ‘Invalid Arc with radius 1296292123659882463232.000000 and angle 1800.000000’

I have found that I modify the arc and manually make it 180.1 degrees or 179.9 degrees, or anything other than 180 (although I have not tried all of them! ) it doesn’t complain any more.

Is this something I am doing wrong or is it a program problem?

Here is the version information…

Application: KiCad PCB Editor (64-bit)

Version: (6.0.2), release build

Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.1.5
libcurl/7.78.0-DEV Schannel zlib/1.2.11

Platform: Windows 10 (build 22000), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW

Build Info:
Date: Feb 12 2022 14:32:09
wxWidgets: 3.1.5 (wchar_t,wx containers)
Boost: 1.76.0
OCC: 7.6.0
Curl: 7.78.0-DEV
ngspice: 36
Compiler: Visual C++ 1928 without C++ ABI

Build settings:
KICAD_USE_OCC=ON
KICAD_SPICE=ON

Thanks,
David

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Please say KiCad version from Help->About KiCad->Copy version info.

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Thanks for reminding me. I edited my post with the information.

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I just found out that I am behind a little in my program updates, so will try updating and see if that cures anything.

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Indeed, this sounds like Impossible to create arcs of 180° (#10841) · Issues · KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad · GitLab which has been fixed in the latest bugfix release.

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Thanks for the information! Yes, I just updated to version 6.0.4 and that problem went away.

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