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KiCAD 7 (RC) - Testing and looking for feature "Skeletal View" ?

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Uky:
Downloaded Version 7 RC today, nightly build 27th of january and began exploring it.

In the preferences menus, there are a number of settings but my "favorite" setting, coming from Cadence where I use
skeletal view of traces and shapes is not available. In the Cadence settings, the opacity and the contour (skeletal) view
can be controlled independently. This feature "unclutters" a complex board design where otherwise one layer blocks the view
of others under it. The layer preiority can be set but IMO, the skeletal view is a very nice graphic feature.

Now: Is there such a setting in KiCAD that I have not found?

djsb:
If you look on the left-hand side menu, you can switch the pads, tracks and via's to outline mode. If you look at the right-hand menu under objects, you can control the opacity of layers. There are other layer highlighting features that I'm sure you'll find as you continue to explore KiCad.

Uky:
That would be in the editor environment and not in the preferences menu then.
I did not get that far but I will will be looking for this feature. It would be v e r y nice to have...

 :)

MadScientist:

--- Quote from: djsb on January 28, 2023, 11:51:26 am ---If you look on the left-hand side menu, you can switch the pads, tracks and via's to outline mode. If you look at the right-hand menu under objects, you can control the opacity of layers. There are other layer highlighting features that I'm sure you'll find as you continue to explore KiCad.

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You can achieve similar things with kicad , yes

JohanH:
BTW, be careful with nightly and RC versions. I've been using it for a couple of weeks, but since a week ago I can't open some projects. Eeschema and Pcbnew segfault when opening the projects. So I have two small projects now that are stuck, because I made them with the development version and they just crashes when trying to open them. And also many older projects made with 6.0 crashes when opening. Some projects don't crash however (smaller ones?) and when I make a new project from scratch it doesn't crash. Hopefully the issue is known and will be fixed.

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