3d model of sot23/tsot23 is rotated -90 degrees in Z plane

[diddly]

I am using KiCAD 4.0.6 on Gentoo Linux. I have just begun using it, but others in IRC assured me this is a bug and not me "using it wrong" as I thought.

Basically, add a device and associate either SOT23 or TSOT23 (and/or the handsolder variants). When you look at it's 3d preview, or the 3d rendering of the board, the device is rotated 90 degrees off from where the pads are. The pads are in the orientation I placed them, but the 3d device does not match.

Also, after manually tweaking the 3d model's rotation and it is correctly lined up, it appears to be floating above the board. Possibly related.

There may be others in this library that have the 90 degrees rotation bug, those are the only ones I checked.

[Nick Østergaard (nickoe)]

Where are the libs from? Maybe you are using footprints from github and 3D models from a stable release package?

[diddly (dflogeras2)]

Yes, it seems that is the case. Are they incompatible? The default installation complained about not being able to use the GitHub plugin, so I rebuilt with it enabled. Perhaps this is a Gentoo packaging problem? Out-of-the-box it seems to point to /usr/share/kicad... for footprint libraries, and GitHub for 3d modules.

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

@diddly, you'll probably have better luck with that question on one of the forums (where library designers also hang out). Try https://forum.kicad.info.