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[LordBlick <lordblick@xxxxxxxxx>]

In response to a message written on 29.11.2014 18:34, from Nick Østergaard:
> I also tested this on Fedora 20, it seems to work as expected. Except
> for the gerbview that renders it pretty strangely.  I have attached
> the gerbers and some screenshots (if they get throught the mail
> filter). It definitely seems like there is some issues with
> calculating the polygonal fill. The kicad_pcb file is not in the tar,
> since pcbnew failed to save it. I forgot to save the error message.
> But I am sure these issues are meant to be solved in another thread
> than this.
>
> Kicad does indeed really has a lot of issues on Fedora 20 (we have
> also seen that in other email threads here). If a dev gets the urge, I
> would highly recommend him to try installing kicad on that.
>
> I have run it with the default graphics driver with fedora. So I am
> not sure what it really used, but I tested this on the same machine
> that I usually run kicad on with archlinux.
>
> Version: (2014-11-29 BZR 5307)-product Release build
> wxWidgets: Version 3.0.2 (debug,wchar_t,compiler with C++ ABI 1002,GCC
> 4.8.3,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
> Platform: Linux 3.17.3-200.fc20.x86_64 x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
> Boost version: 1.54.0
>           USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
>           USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
>           KICAD_SCRIPTING=OFF
>           KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=OFF
>           KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=OFF
>           USE_FP_LIB_TABLE=HARD_CODED_ON
>           BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
>
> Issues are:
> 1. Default renderer in pcbnew is not really rendering anything.
> 2. Rendering in eeschema is very slow, the grid dots are not dots when
> zoomed in very close.
> 3. pcbnew failed to save a pcb
> 4. There are rendering artifacts or something regarding to the fill
> when viewed in the 3D viewer.
>
> But I will now try to reboot and check if some of the fill issues
> appear on my normal system.
I've open your gerbers in my build and seems be OK…
Application: gerbview
Version: (2014-jul-16 BZR unknown)-BZR5307 Release build
wxWidgets: Version 3.0.1 (release,wchar_t,compiler with C++ ABI 1002,GCC 
4.8.3,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
Platform: Linux 3.17.3-1 x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Boost version: 1.54.0
         USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
         USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
         KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
         KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
         KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
         USE_FP_LIB_TABLE=HARD_CODED_ON
         BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=OFF

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Best Regards,
LordBlick

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