Latest revision as of 21:48, 3 November 2023

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

	Note for KiCad 7
Please use the bolded solution below to open KiCad v5 and v6 projects on KiCad v7 the other solutions may not work.

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

KiCad v7 fix

Another fix is to copy the fp-lib-table and sim-lib-table from the KiCad v7 template in the PCB repository ~/Dev/Template_v0.0

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

All done now the projects should be looking like this:

@@ Line 25: / Line 25: @@
+{{RemarksBox Info|Title=Note for KiCad 7|Text=Please use the bolded solution below to open KiCad v5 and v6 projects on KiCad v7 the other solutions may not work.}}
 To fix this and view the projects normally follow these steps:
@@ Line 40: / Line 40: @@
 # 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'''''
+=KiCad v7 fix=
+'''Another fix is to copy the fp-lib-table and sim-lib-table from the [[KiCad]] v7 template in the PCB repository ~/Dev/Template_v0.0
+'''
 If you have any questions contact the electrical leads or message in {{SlackLink|elec-cad}}