I unzipped the template and copied it into ~/Documents/kicad/template. Then, in KiCad, I do “New Project From Template”. A warning dialog pops up which says this:
And I click “OK”. However, the window that comes up just says “Template Selector” and is otherwise mostly blank. (I can’t show you what it looks like, because I am only allowed to post one image.)
All three tabs (“System Templates”, “User Templates”, and “Portable Templates”) are similarly blank. The only thing that seems strange is that on “System Templates”, the Template Path is /Users/ppelleti/Documents/kicad/template, but on “User Templates”, the Template Path is /Applications/Kicad/kicad.app/Contents/SharedSupport/template. This is the exact opposite of what I’d expect. But, in any case, the OSH Park template doesn’t show up in any of the tabs.
Any idea what I need to do to use the OSH Park template? Thanks!
I stripped out the color profile with exiftool -icc_profile= icon.png, and now the warning dialog no longer pops up, but the Template Selector window is still blank. Any ideas? Thanks!
I haven’t downloaded 4.0.7 yet (it’s on my to-do list), but I’m not aware of the problem being solved.
I wrote a little program to let me instantiate templates from the command line. (It copies and renames the files, so I don’t have to rename them manually.) If there’s interest, I could clean it up for public consumption.
It is still broken on my nightly version from a month back. With a bit of random button clicking you can sometimes get it to load a template - but it is purely luck and clearly broken.