Angle brackets in indeterminate string can be confusing (lp:#1821601)
Original report created by TraditionAndrew Denham (andrewdwork)
I am running KiCad V5.1.0 under windows 64bit professional. This has been
tried on two very different PCs with the same result.
In Edit tab / Edit Text & Graphic Properties: If a line has been previously
drawn on edge.cuts before this tab is selected, trying to set a new line
width results in all lines on layer set to width = 0. Also applies to
Dwgs.User layer and maybe other layers.
Edge cuts lines can still be selected individually with right click, but if
co-sited with another line such as one on Dwgs.User layer it is very hard
to select the (now) 0 width line. Turning off the Dwgs.user layer was the
only way to grab the line.
When it is selected by using block command, message is provided "Line width
cannot be 0". It can now be set to any required value, but changing in the
Edit tab / Edit Text & Graphic Properties again to try to set all edge.cuts
to (say) 0.05mm still sets it back to width 0.
As I could not get the change size to work I eventually settled for setting
the graphic default to .05mm and re-drawing the outline as a work around,
and that is fine as long as the setting remains as started.
The graphics setting tab is not covered in the supplied PCBnew
Documentation as far as I can discover.
Build details:
Application: kicad
Version: (5.1.0)-1, release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.4
libcurl/7.61.1 OpenSSL/1.1.1 (WinSSL) zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.6
libidn2/2.0.5 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.0.5) nghttp2/1.34.0
Platform: Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1), 64-bit edition, 64 bit,
Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
Boost: 1.68.0
OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
Curl: 7.61.1
Compiler: GCC 8.2.0 with C++ ABI 1013
Build settings:
USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
KICAD_SPICE=ON