Inconsistent export step with 3d viewer

[Leandro Heck]

3D viewer shows the board fine. But when exporting the step I get the following output:

I believe both tools should be consistent. If one works, the other should work too.

Executing '"/usr/bin/kicad2step" --no-virtual --drill-origin -f -o "/home/lheck/Dropbox/deepx/HOMEBASE/hardware-misc/blue-gecko-radio-plate-rpi/plate.step" "/home/lheck/Dropbox/deepx/HOMEBASE/hardware-misc/blue-gecko-radio-plate-rpi/plate.kicad_pcb"'
Warning: 23:26:16: /build/kicad-31k5XM/kicad-5.0.1-stable/kicad/utils/kicad2step/pcb/oce_utils.cpp: CreatePCB: 754
Warning: * could not close outline (dropping outline data with 1 segments)
Warning: + arc center: 123.996,-66.9972 radius: 2 angle: 90
Error: Unable to create STEP file. Check that the board has a valid outline and models.

Application: kicad
Version: 5.0.1-33cea8e~68~ubuntu18.10.1, release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.61.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1 zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.5 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.0.4) nghttp2/1.32.1 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Linux 4.19.0-041900rc8-lowlatency x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 2.24
    Boost: 1.67.0
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
    Curl: 7.61.0
    Compiler: GCC 8.2.0 with C++ ABI 1013

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

[Seth Hillbrand (sethh)]

Can you attach the problematic board?

[Leandro Heck (leoheck)]

Seth, ok it is not a problem. It is attached here.

[Seth Hillbrand (sethh)]

Thanks. The outline is not closed. Here is the top left corner

I'm going to set this to a 6.0 item as we will be looking at merging the step export into the kicad application where we will have more control over the elements.

In the meantime, you can drag the endpoints and they should snap together.

[Leandro Heck (leoheck)]

Yes sure, the fix was easy.

It is working for me, but 3D viewer and the step export weren't using the same process because it was working on 3D viewer.

Aligning this for 6.0 will good Seth! Thanks.

[KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor)]

KiCad bug tracker has moved to Gitlab. This report is now available here: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/2269