PCB image blank

[grego1981]

Hi and congrats on this concept! I'm trying to generate the diagram but it comes back as blank pngs.. What I did was to install pinion via pip3 and WSL (ubuntu20.04) in Windows 10, at first some libraries were missing (imagemagick and Wand) which I installed as well. Then I had to install kicad in WSL as well because it couldn't locate the pcbnew module. Then I ran : pinion template --board bench-PSU.kicad_pcb --output bpsu.yaml and a yaml was generated, and then I ran: pinion generate --board bench-PSU.kicad_pcb --specification bpsu.yaml . which only generated some warnings like the one below: Warning: component 'PinHeader_1x02_P2.54mm_Vertical.back' for footprint 'SW5' from library 'Connector_PinHeader_2.54mm' was not found

And finally I ran: pinion serve -b --directory .

And the page opened had the pins working hovering the mouse and clicking them but the PCB was a blank image. I tried the pngs directly with paint and indeed they were blanks....

What can I see to make it work?

[yaqwsx]

This a probably because of incompatible versions of Inkscape and ImageMagick installed. Please see the discussion (linked to relevant issues) here: https://github.com/yaqwsx/PcbDraw/issues/48#issuecomment-821963357

[grego1981]

Tried the patch you suggest and installed the suggested imagemagick version described in linked issue: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/3564 Then the error changed:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/grego/.local/bin/pinion", line 8, in sys.exit(cli()) File "/home/grego/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1137, in call return self.main(*args, **kwargs) File "/home/grego/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1062, in main rv = self.invoke(ctx) File "/home/grego/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1668, in invoke return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx)) File "/home/grego/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1404, in invoke return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params) File "/home/grego/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/click/core.py", line 763, in invoke return __callback(*args, **kwargs) File "/home/grego/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pinion/ui.py", line 83, in generate generate(specification=yaml.load(specification), File "/home/grego/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pinion/generate.py", line 213, in generate fSource = generateImage(board.GetFileName(), outputdir / "front.png", File "/home/grego/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pinion/generate.py", line 142, in generateImage svgToBitmap(svgfilename, outputfilename, dpi) File "/home/grego/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pinion/generate.py", line 112, in svgToBitmap binaryBlob = image.make_blob(type) File "/home/grego/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/wand/image.py", line 9581, in make_blob with self.convert(format) as converted: File "/home/grego/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/wand/image.py", line 9539, in convert cloned = self.clone() File "/home/grego/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/wand/image.py", line 3348, in clone return Image(image=self) File "/home/grego/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/wand/image.py", line 9131, in init self.raise_exception() File "/home/grego/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/wand/resource.py", line 222, in raise_exception raise e wand.exceptions.DrawError: non-conforming drawing primitive definition `circle' @ error/draw.c/RenderMVGContent/4470

[yaqwsx]

The situation with ImageMagick being constantly broken made me rewrite the conversion handling in PcbDraw. You can install the upstream version of PcbDraw and then, it should work just fine.