Public:Viewing KiCad v5 Projects

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

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

1. 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)
2. Make sure you have pulled the latest changes.
   • Run git pull and git submodule update in the command line on Git Bash.
3. Change directories to the Library submodule
   • Run cd Libraries/
4. Checkout the tag: v5_libs
   • Run git checkout v5_libs
5. Restart KiCad for the changes to take effect
6. 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: