Had this weird and quite cryptic warning a few times in PCB, have no clue where it points to…
I can’t pinpoint when it appears, seemingly random and my design works fine. Must admit it’s a design that went through quite a few nightlies but was finally imported in V8.
It also happens when opening the PCB.
What am I missing?
Did the upgrade but it is still there. It is only when I select a footprint and select “Properties” (e) . Have no clue but I need to click it away if I want to continue. It is always there and not related to a particular project.
I’m at 8.0.2 now and still have this error, the warnings are always the same structure, they are just the HH:MM:SS format but no other info is given, Even if I start a completely new Project it is still there, is there a way to know what is behind these messages, some log or other?
But now I have another problem…
While renaming a project in order to use parts of it for designing a slightly different version I got an “error”, maybe I’m just stupid but the annoying thing is that I cannot “close” this error because it continues lower than my visible screen and am not able to scroll till the end. So the only way to stop this is to force a stop of the Kicad program. I suppose this is only related to MacOS (still on Ventura here. Running on a Mac mini M1 with 16GB.
I ask first in this blog before I escalate and report these as bugs. Maybe somebody else has these problems and a solution…?
What does “View details” show?
Could it be that there is a newer package of 8.0.2?
Sometimes it happens that more than one binary package is built of the same version.
yes, this is probably the same issue but I was not moaning about the “error” but about the fact that the pop-up window was larger than my screen and so I could not close it apart from restarting Kicad, as I said probably something typically Mac…
After the 8.0.2-rc2 that you have both 8.0.2 and 8.0.2-1 have been built, so it is highly likely that’s why you get the messages about a newer version with the same version number.
I suppose you will notice these weird red artifacts on the right, these are leftovers from the previous pcb I used as template for a completely new design, I actually started with a previous design and deleted everything that I didn’t need, so I left the outline but made new “edges”
They ARE objects because when I zoom to “objects” I got the image you see…
BUT… I am unable to select them and remove them, I don’t see them in the 3D-view or in any layer, even after exporting the gerbers. So they sit there do nothing and are just annoying me.
It is not the first time I got this but with the previous (totally other) project they disappeared after some time, but this time no luck.
Enlarged
Again maybe somebody got the same problem here…so I ask before nagging the developpers.
Towards the end of the file, from line 7838 and onwards, you have a number of zones that have “teardrop” in their names, that seem to match the coordinates of your ‘artifacts’. (See below. The forum doesn’t reproduce the indentation properly, so I include a screenshot of the two first instances to show what it looks like in a text editor.)
Edit: Removing the lines from 7838 to the second last one removed the artefacts from the Board editor view too, and didn’t seem to immediately break anything. lichtsturing_test2.kicad_pcb (147.6 KB)
Did you have some pads with teardrops at those coordinates in your old design? If so, it seems that the teardrops (smooth transition between pad and track) didn’t get removed when you deleted everything.
If you can reproduce this, perhaps even a minimal example project which demonstrates this behaviour, it might be interesting to see what produces this. Perhaps there is something that could be fixed in the code to avoid it.
Indeed, the problem where these “teardrops” that I used in the previous version of this pcb. I did have a look at the file but did not know what to look for and certainly not these teardrops. So I enabled them again and automagically these artifacts disappeared!
I don’t know if this important enough to bump this to the developpers, if it is I may prepare a demo for this but not now because I’m rather busy for the moment, maybe after I send the design to the fabhouse.
And thanks for your time!