Kicad Nightly build plugin not working

[robouden]

Trying to export of the Gerber files for the latest KiCad build and the PCB way plugin keep crashing. System is Linux Mint 21.1
I tried to modify the code as suggested by others in older issues, but no luck.

Regards
Rob Oudendijk

[a-allard]

Looking at this more in detail as Kicad 8 is close to release. Here is the specific version info for what I am using:

Application: KiCad x86_64 on x86_64

Version: 8.0.0rc1-4e3d2a148d176~ubuntu22.04.1, release build

Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.2.1
FreeType 2.11.1
HarfBuzz 2.7.4
FontConfig 2.13.1
libcurl/7.81.0 OpenSSL/3.0.2 zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.9 zstd/1.4.8 libidn2/2.3.2 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.3.2) libssh/0.9.6/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.43.0 librtmp/2.3 OpenLDAP/2.5.16

Platform: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, X11, ubuntu, x11

Build Info:
Date: Jan 13 2024 14:38:18
wxWidgets: 3.2.1 (wchar_t,wx containers) GTK+ 3.24
Boost: 1.74.0
OCC: 7.5.2
Curl: 7.81.0
ngspice: 40
Compiler: GCC 11.4.0 with C++ ABI 1016

Build settings:

Kicad either completely crashes or puts a dialog up reading: "FOOTPRINT has no attribute HasProperty."

No other details at the moment.

[a-allard]

Got this working.....

To modify this to work with Kicad 8.0 open process.py and find the function get_mpn_from_footprint

replace with this modified version:

    def get_mpn_from_footprint(self, f):
        keys = ['mpn', 'MPN', 'Mpn', 'PCBWay_MPN' ,'part number', 'Part Number', 'Part No.', 'Mfr. Part No.', 'Mfg Part']
        for key in keys:
            if f.HasField(key):
                return f.GetFieldByName(key).GetText()

[pcbway]

Thanks for the feedback,I will ask our engineer double check it

[a-allard]

@pcbway Any update on when this might get fixed?

[a-allard]

If it helps I can do a fork and pull request....

[pcbway]

Hi
There are some test issues in kicad8 night version that have not been solved yet. You can use kicad7 version first.
Sorry about that

[aldwinhermanudin]

Got this working.....

To modify this to work with Kicad 8.0 open process.py and find the function get_mpn_from_footprint

replace with this modified version:

    def get_mpn_from_footprint(self, f):
        keys = ['mpn', 'MPN', 'Mpn', 'PCBWay_MPN' ,'part number', 'Part Number', 'Part No.', 'Mfr. Part No.', 'Mfg Part']
        for key in keys:
            if f.HasField(key):
                return f.GetFieldByName(key).GetText()

I'm using the latest KiCAD version 8.0.0. This changes work for me and the output files looks good too.

[pcbway]

If by this method, the kicad7 version will not be able to use the plug-in. We are communicating with the kicad manager about this.

[a-allard]

@pcbway That is a fair point....

Here is a fix that should work for either 7 or 8. (I have not tested yet)

def get_mpn_from_footprint(self, f):
        keys = ['mpn', 'MPN', 'Mpn', 'PCBWay_MPN' ,'part number', 'Part Number', 'Part No.', 'Mfr. Part No.', 'Mfg Part']
        v = int(pcbnew.Version()[0])
        if v == 7:
            for key in keys:
                if f.HasProperty(key):
                    return f.GetProperty(key)
        else:
            for key in keys:
                if f.HasField(key):
                    return f.GetFieldByName(key).GetText()

[a-allard]

Tested on 8.0.0 and 7.0.11 on Windows 11. Works like a charm on both.

[pcbway]

We have submitted the code update, and when it is passed,the kicad 8 and kicad 7 will both work well.

[pcbway]

Hi,Everyone,The plug-in has been updated and can now adapt to kicad8 and kicad7 versions. You can update and use it directly.
Thanks very much