Difference between revisions of "Public:Viewing KiCad v5 Projects"

Revision as of 11:56, 6 September 2022

You may have noticed your schematics looking like this when viewing old ISC projects:

To fix this and view the projects normally follow these steps:

Make sure all the repositories are installed properly on your machine.
- This includes the GitHub/isc-hw-libs submodule in the PCB repo(if you don't see the Libraries folder in PCB follow this guide)
Make sure you have pulled the latest changes.
- Run git pull and git submodule update in the command line on Git Bash.
Change directories to the Library submodule
- Run cd Libraries/
Checkout the tag: v5_libs
- Run git checkout v5_libs
Restart KiCad for the changes to take effect
When opening the schematic it might come up with a warning saying a library cache file was not found
- Disregard this and click load without cache file

If you have any questions contact the electrical leads or message in elec-cad

All done now the projects should be looking like this:

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