Zooming on Large PCB's (Bug?)

[paulvdh]

For answering this question:

Remember selection in Pcbnew

Another way to use the “Move Exactly” function: “Move Exactly” remembers the distances to move. So you can easily make a sub selection, move that 500mm to the right (so it’s outside of the “paper area”, and then repeat the move for other sub parts. So you use the 500mm offset as a sort of clipboard. If you’ve made a mistake, hit [Ctrl + z] to undo. and redo it properly. Once all the good parts are moved 500mm, you can easily drag a box around it and do a final move. As an experiment I used 1…

… I did a little experiment.

I made some selection in an existing PCB and moved that 1000mm to the right. Then I could not zoom in anymore on that moved section.

In this post, Rene wrote PCB coordinates are 32 bit integers and should go from -2148 to +2147mm

Change Max Size of PCB

Hi , I have to design a very large PCB, around 2400mm x 600mm. So in KiCad PCBnew I tried to change the paper size and here I get an Error message that the maximum PCB size is 1219.2mm x 1219.2mm. Is it possible to change that? Why is there a pcb size limit? KiCad version 5.1.2

Python says:
>>> pow (2, 31)
2147483648.0

Bobc added that “Weird stuff” starts to happen once you go over a meter. An experiment confirms I can not zoom in on a 1206 resistor if it’s X-coordinate is larger then about 1074mm, which is suspiciously close to half of the 2147 max coordinate.

So how important is this considered to be?
@smart1 Did you encounter further problems with your big PCB?

Mike Harrison (Mikes Electric Stuff) makes big PCB’s also, I remember one of his youtube video’s where he talks about having difficulty in finding a PCB manufacturer (in the UK) that could make his PCB’s. I thing those PCB’s were also over 2 meters long.

My KiCad version is the regular 5.1.6 which should be bug free
Application: KiCad

Version: 5.1.6-c6e7f7d~87~ubuntu18.04.1, release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.4
libcurl/7.58.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1 zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.4 libpsl/0.19.1 (+libidn2/2.0.4) nghttp2/1.30.0 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Linux 5.4.0-42-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.22
Boost: 1.65.1
OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
Curl: 7.58.0
Compiler: GCC 7.5.0 with C++ ABI 1011

Build settings:
USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
USE_WX_OVERLAY=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
KICAD_SPICE=ON

[Edit:] Added KiCad version, tought about this while trying to find Mike’s video, Eelik beat me to it in asking

[eelik]

KiCad version? Have you tried with 5.99?