Schematic changes not fully transferred to pcbnew unless eeschema is closed

[Oleg Endo]

I have noticed this started happening a few days ago.

When using the "Update PCB from schematic" button in pcbnew some changes to the schematic are not reflected until eeschema is closed. Closing eeschema and re-running the update-from-schematic will reflect all the changes.

[Seth Hillbrand (sethh)]

Hi Oleg- Please add the version information for which this is happening. It may be a while before someone looks at it, at which point the "a few days ago" reference is hard to track down.

Also, is this the same as lp:1823177 ?

[Oleg Endo (oleg.endo)]

Sorry, I'm only using the nightly builds so I always forget to mention that I'm using the nightly builds on Ubuntu ;)

So, this started happening on the nightly builds sometime during this week. I guess it's related to the changes of the connectivity netlist thingy that's been going on.

Maybe it's related to lp:1823177 but for me, hitting the "update from schematic" button multiple times doesn't have any effect. Only closing eeschema will do the trick it seems.

[Michael Kavanagh (michaelkavanagh)]

@Oleg, please can you copy the exact version information from Help -> About KiCad -> Copy Version Info

[Oleg Endo (oleg.endo)]

Sure

Application: kicad
Version: 5.1.0-unknown-615c493~82~ubuntu18.04.1, release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.58.0 OpenSSL/1.1.0g zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.4 libpsl/0.19.1 (+libidn2/2.0.4) nghttp2/1.30.0 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Linux 4.15.0-47-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.22
    Boost: 1.65.1
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
    Curl: 7.58.0
    Compiler: GCC 7.3.0 with C++ ABI 1011

Build settings:
    USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
    USE_WX_OVERLAY=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
    KICAD_SPICE=ON

[tistructor (tistructor)]

The same happens in the windows version too.

Application: kicad
Version: (5.1.0-173-g27e6f5b9e), release build
Libraries:
     wxWidgets 3.0.4
     libcurl / 7.61.1 OpenSSL / 1.1.1 (WinSSL) zlib / 1.2.11 brotli / 1.0.6 libidn2 / 2.0.5 libpsl / 0.20.2 (+ libidn2 / 2.0.5) nghttp2 / 1.34.0
Platform: Windows 8 (build 9200), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
     wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t, wx containers, compatible with 2.8)
     Boost: 1.68.0
     OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
     Curl: 7.61.1
     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_PYTHON3 = OFF
     KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON = ON
     KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX = OFF
     KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU = ON
     BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN = ON
     KICAD_USE_OCE = ON
     KICAD_USE_OCC = OFF
     KICAD_SPICE = ON

[Jon Evans (craftyjon)]

This is probably because real time connectivity is currently disabled. I can put in a workaround.

[Jon Evans (craftyjon)]

This should be working now, please re-open if you see any issues