[kicad-users] where are the pads gone?

[Giovanni Spinotti [e-mail] [kicad-users]]

Sorry if this has been answered before,

I'm back on kicad since a very long pause on a very very simple project
that needs 1 opamp, a few resistors and 2 capacitors.

I wrote the schematic, assigned footprints, imported them in pcbview...

If I keep f.silks on, all of the pads that have silks around them disappear.

It's really annoying and I'm positive it didn't work like that back then.

The problem is permanent in pcbview but sometimes appears also in the
footprint editor, although with a couple of clicks here or there in the
editor the pads reappear.

I'm on osx 10.11 kicad version 4.0.5.

Any quick help?

Thank you

spino

['N.A. Moseley' [e-mail] [kicad-users]]

Hi Giovanni,

If I understand you correctly, this seems like a bug.

Have you tried to use a different 'canvas', such as OpenGL or Cairo?
You can find the canvas setting in the menus of PCBNew; I forget which one exactly.
These two canvases use different graphics rendering engines and can/will behave differently.

Hope this helps,
Niels.

Post by Giovanni Spinotti ***@obliquid.it [kicad-users]
Sorry if this has been answered before,
I'm back on kicad since a very long pause on a very very simple project
that needs 1 opamp, a few resistors and 2 capacitors.
I wrote the schematic, assigned footprints, imported them in pcbview...
If I keep f.silks on, all of the pads that have silks around them disappear.
It's really annoying and I'm positive it didn't work like that back then.
The problem is permanent in pcbview but sometimes appears also in the
footprint editor, although with a couple of clicks here or there in the
editor the pads reappear.
I'm on osx 10.11 kicad version 4.0.5.
Any quick help?
Thank you
spino
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thanks niels, definitely going to check that out.

in the meanwhile, i resolved by popping up some old libraries of mine for the pads at fault and the old components don't seem to have the same problem.

should i replicate the apparent bug for somebody to check into?