Not working with KiKit installed
scottywei opened this issue · comments
Seems kicad-round-tracks won't work in KiCad 7.0, I got a project which was created in KiCad 6, and just upgraded to version 7 by my newly installed KiCad 7.0.1, I tried to get all my tracks rounded and it seems working, giving me the time it takes, but nothing happen to my PCB design, I tried creating a new project, placed some very simple routes in PCB design, but kicad-round-tracks still won't change anything to the PCB.
Version Info:
Application: KiCad x64 on x64
Version: 7.0.1, release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.2.2
FreeType 2.12.1
HarfBuzz 5.0.1
FontConfig 2.14.1
libcurl/7.83.1-DEV Schannel zlib/1.2.13
Platform: Windows 11 (build 22621), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
Date: Mar 11 2023 03:41:46
wxWidgets: 3.2.2 (wchar_t,wx containers)
Boost: 1.80.0
OCC: 7.6.2
Curl: 7.83.1-DEV
ngspice: 39
Compiler: Visual C++ 1934 without C++ ABI
Build settings:
KICAD_SPICE=ON
What version of round tracks?
Can you run it again with the scripting console open (Tools > Scripting console) and see if there are any errors?
What version of round tracks?
Can you run it again with the scripting console open (Tools > Scripting console) and see if there are any errors?
Thank you for replying. I'm using v1.4 of round track, and what command shall I suppose to typing in the console?
Just run the plugin while the scripting console is open, if there are errors it should show a popup.
There is no popup or any error message in the scripting console while running plugin.
Hi, I just solved the problem by totally remove my KiCad 7 installation, including the plugin folders and the setting folder in %APPDATA%/kicad/, then reinstall KiCad 7 and DO NOT import settings from KiCad 6, use a new default setting instead, then install the round track plugin, it works fine now.
Seems when I have kikit and kicad-round-tracks installed at the same time in KiCad 7, the kicad-round-tracks won't work, when I uninstall kikit and restart KiCad 7, the kicad-round-tracks will work agian.
Aha, well spotted. I'll look into it.
So, looks like the author of KiKit has made this compatibility layer called pcbnewTransition, which is implemented by fiddling with sys.modules - https://github.com/yaqwsx/pcbnewTransition/blob/main/pcbnewTransition/transition.py
This isn't supposed to affect other plugins but I'm doing some fairly brittle checks like type(track) == pcbnew.PCB_TRACK which now fail with KiKit installed. It's kind of my fault I suppose (but kind of not) but at least it's an easy fix.
Fixed in 1.5