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Offline FloopyTopic starter

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KiCad 5 Assigning foot freezes?
« on: October 15, 2018, 05:33:01 pm »
I recently upgraded to KiCad version 5. So far it's been okay but every time I try to assign a footprint to a component, it just freezes up and about 30 seconds later it just pulls up a blank list. I've tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it with not luck. I can't find anybody else mentioning this problem. What's happening? I have a project that I need to finish soon.
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Offline awallin

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Re: KiCad 5 Assigning foot freezes?
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2018, 05:54:49 pm »
do you have (good) internet connectivity with ports and IPs/firewalls allowing git-access to github?
it may try to update from github every time you start the assigning-tool from schematic-editor.

the workaround may be to download libraries to local files and point your library table there instead of github.
 
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Re: KiCad 5 Assigning foot freezes?
« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2018, 08:06:58 pm »
I downloaded the libraries and deleted the github.xxx ones. It seems to be working now? I have a very fast internet connection, I have about 40mbps.
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Re: KiCad 5 Assigning foot freezes?
« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2018, 05:05:56 pm »
I am pretty sure I've seen that bug and it has already been reported; the footprint "filter by number of pins" seems broken and hangs the app for several seconds. Fortunately it's usually possible to use the filter-by-name feature (which still works).

https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1801622

They are claiming it's fixed in the nightly build (see link)
 

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Re: KiCad 5 Assigning foot freezes?
« Reply #4 on: November 12, 2018, 05:48:35 pm »
Probably similar to that: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/kicad/footprint-association-tool/

Removing the 'fp-lib-table' file usually does the trick. It's in the user's config. directory (on Windows, it's 'C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Roaming\kicad').
 
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Re: KiCad 5 Assigning foot freezes?
« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2018, 04:19:08 pm »
That was an amazingly good tip, it's fixed!

Bravo.
 


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