KiCAD 6.0.7 Released - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: johnboxall
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 27, 2022, 10:34:39 pm
content: Quotehttps://www.kicad.org/blog/2022/07/KiCad-6.0.7-Release

author: Bassman59
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 27, 2022, 11:04:20 pm
content: Quote from: johnboxall on July 27, 2022, 10:34:39 pmAh, that "Crash on shutdown" thing was killing me, glad to see it got fixed.

author: Ed.Kloonk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 27, 2022, 11:09:06 pm
content: Quote from: Bassman59 on July 27, 2022, 11:04:20 pmSome people pay very good money for software that does that.

author: Warhawk
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 28, 2022, 08:53:36 am
content: Mr Ed.Kloonk, please stop talking about our Altium products.John Doe,Circuit Studio product launch specialist

author: eugene
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 28, 2022, 03:04:36 pm
content: The ME's that I've worked with regularly complained that SolidWorks has locked up in the middle of doing something. SOP as far as I can tell.

author: JohanH
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 01, 2022, 07:23:58 am
content: Quote from: evb149 on August 01, 2022, 07:11:28 amOn Linux at least, there is the option to enable OpenGL (accelerated graphics). I haven't seen much difference, except for the 3D preview in PCB design. The 3D preview even has raytracing capability, which is really sluggish even with a relatively modern graphics card (I have GTX 1070 that doesn't have any real raytracing capabilities). But I haven't explored all features and is by no means an expert, just a regular user. Naturally, I keep to the latest version available. I experienced some crashes in the early 6.0 release. Now with the later updates, I haven't seen issues.If you have a modern PC, I imagine it wouldn't be a problem to run it in a container. On Linux, I would recommend flatpak. It requires less resources than a "real" container.There are also unofficial repositories for many OS out there.

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 01, 2022, 07:27:30 am
content: Got to say that on macOS the display is smooth as butter in the PCB and schematic editor. Display is definitely hardware accelerated and runs up to 120Hz.But Cmd-S every 30 seconds is still built in. Occasionally it crashes. I lost about 20 mins of board layout yesterday because I was not saving every 30 seconds.

author: MarkR42
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: August 13, 2022, 10:37:53 am
content: Kicad does use the GPU significantly and it historically did not work well with VMs. Most of the virtual machines don't have good 3d acceleration support, and/or its guest OS drivers are dodgy.I was able to get (after they fixed my bugs, thanks!) Kicad 6 working in Linux in Virtualbox. This was, I think, mostly using a software rendering implementation which is a lot slower than the GPU (the 3d viewer gets quite sluggish with complicated boards) - but it is still usable in the schematic editor and PCB editor - I don't have any highly complex boards, but I imagine it will become unusable eventually.Hardware rendering I couldn't get working reliably on either Linux or Windows guest OS. But it works really well natively (not in a VM) in Windows and Linux.

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 13, 2022, 06:02:06 pm
content: I've tried KiCad through a VNC connection and it "mostly" works. There are some issues with the zoom function not zooming at the correct position relative to the cursor. And of course it's sluggish.

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 14, 2022, 08:40:53 pm
content: Quote from: evb149 on August 14, 2022, 05:14:37 amAFAIK the Mesa3d packages should help. This gives you emulated OpenGL (if Kicad uses that). With a Linux host and Windows guest, the Mesa3d emulated OpenGL works well for CAD purposes.

author: MarkR42
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 08, 2022, 08:38:55 am
content: Quote from: SiliconWizard on August 13, 2022, 06:02:06 pmApparently that's not a bug, it's a feature. You can turn on sensible mouse-wheel zoom behaviour by disabling option "Mouse and Touchpad -> Center and warp cursor on zoom"

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 08, 2022, 06:07:29 pm
content: Quote from: MarkR42 on September 08, 2022, 08:38:55 amNo no, that's not what I'm talking about. This wouldn't be specific to VNC, and I'm actually used to this feature. I personally prefer the zoom re-centering the view, I find it more productive. It's just that on VNC, the zoom does absolutely nothing coherent and nothing like it does on normal desktop in either setting. Anyway, that was just for mentioning using it through VNC - I do not see much use of that as KiCad is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux. I had just tried through VNC out of curiosity, as I have a headless Linux box that I access through SSH or VNC.And it's possibly just a bug of my VNC viewer, which I suspect. It doesn't have this problem with other applications, but I suspect that it's because KiCad uses OpenGL.