no more independent 3D viewer windows?
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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KiCad |
Fix Committed
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Low
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Jeff Young |
Bug Description
I currently switched from BZR5978 to BZR6608 on Windows 64bit.
In BZR5978 it was possible to open independent 3D views from PCBnew, the footprint editor and the footprint browser.
One got a max of three separate windows that were independent of each other (note *).
Fast forward to BZR6608 and that is no more.
When I open the 3D view from PCBnew and then try to open another one from the footprint editor the focus jumps to the 3d view from PCBnew (window goes in front of all else), but only shows the board, not the footprint I wanted to see.
To show me the footprint I have to close the PCBnew 3D view and only then I can open the 3D view for the footprint.
Related might be a bug that shows solder mask clearances for footprints in the 3D view, although the clearances settings for the pads, the footprint and the global board values in PCBnew are all at ZERO (note **).
This also didn't happen back in BZR5978.
*)
just tested it, by reinstalling the BZR5978 over BZR6608 - I can have three independent 3D views - see screenshot.
The interesting part might be, that the 3D windows were located off-screen - each one of them. I had to use this to get them pop back into existence: http://
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if you think that's a separate bug I'll file another report, no problem.
I already have some info with a screenshot here: https:/
Changed in kicad: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
tags: | added: 3d-viewer |
Changed in kicad: | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
This was changed in a11bbffe9b8c525 203abee41019c2b bf8cc11d72 with the hint "... to prepare others fixes.", but I didn't find any commits from JP over the following 35 days which looked like they were related.
@JP, you don't happen to remember why you made this change, do you?