Hello,
I have downloaded the design files of the ESP32-POE from the folder https://github.com/OLIMEX/ESP32-POE/tree/master/HARDWARE/ESP32-PoE-hardware-revision-D, installed KiCad 5.1.5-3 version and when I open the project it gives me some errors. When I try to open the schematic or PCB file from the project tree it gives me also some errors. What am I doing wrong?
Can you upload a screenshot of the errors that you receive and post link here? I will forward it to the designers.
I have attached screenshots and also saved log file.
KiCAD Version (https://prnt.sc/s6q7xx)
Screen capture 1 (https://prnt.sc/s6q1p7)
Screen capture 2 (https://prnt.sc/s6q2nb)
KiCAD Error log file (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1axHj3NkRG5709fplbk838X3_swgD6YEY)
This does not happen here and I use same version of KiCAD and same files that I just downloaded from GitHub. Tested with all recent revision C, C1, D - all work fine. You can see my test with revision C here: https://imgur.com/5Axv4BK
Try to get the whole repo, extract, and navigate inside. Get it from here:
https://github.com/OLIMEX/ESP32-POE/archive/master.zip
Try to place on on different path.
Thank you for this reply. I downloaded the zip from the previous post but still the same issue. I will try to find the solution in the KiCAD support because it is obvious it is not related to you.
Just to let you know, I reopened the KiCAD again with the files from the whole repo and this time there were no errors. Only a 4 warnings when opening the schematic but they are not a big issue. Most probably the solution is to download the whole repo, not single files like I did. Thank you for the support, everything works.
Glad this got solved. This issue usually comes when downloading files one by one using the web interface they usually get re-assigned extensions - most of the unknown files get saved as *.txt.
The warnings can be safely ignored, if you look at them you would notice that several signals got renamed to *_0 - there is a naming convention requiring symbols to have a number. If you missed to do so, it gets renamed automatically and you get a warning on opening.