missing footprint when importing netlist in pcbnew not very clear
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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KiCad |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This is not really a bug but I thought it may be helpful. I am running Windows 7 64bit nightly 7601 - I have not updated in a couple of weeks as I am in the middle of a project and did not want to risk it.
When I recently completed a schematic I made some changes and then re-imported the netlist in to pcbnew and all looked fine. Unfortunately I did not notice that one of the footprints must have been renamed in the Github repository. This missing footprint did generate an error in the netlist window but it zoomed of the screen so fast I did not see it. This resulted in me having a missing component on my board without realising it.
I think it may be helpful in these cases if there was maybe a popup warning box saying that a footprint could not be found so you do not accidentally miss these errors.
I know there are filters on the bottom of the netlist window but by default 'All' is ticked and I had never thought to touch this as I have not had this happen before.
This is just a thought that I was thinking may be helpful so if this ever happens it would be clearer that a component footprint was now missing on your board.
Changed in kicad: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
When is this popup supposed to appear?
Did the DRC not catch it?