Frequently asked questions

Pinion says pcbnew: no module found

This message probably means that you either:

• you are running Windows or Mac. In that case until KiCAD 6 is released, you have to use one of the alternative methods of usage - see installation.
• you are running Linux, but you don't have KiCAD installed

The diagram does not show up!

If the diagram does not show up, there can be several reasons:

• you have either script or source location wrong. Open developer tools in your browser and inspect logs what went wrong.
• you open a page from local file system (the URL in browser starts with file://). In that case pinion-widget is not able to load the specification as modern browsers prevent from loading local files (due to security reasons). Try running pinion server -b -d <directory> with the directory containing the diagram.