- fixed issue with not loading old projects that do not have certain information's required by the new versions of FlatCAM

- compacted a bit more the GUI for Gerber Object

FlatCAMApp.py

@@ -6272,7 +6272,6 @@ class App(QtCore.QObject):
                 obj_inst.from_dict(obj)
             App.log.debug(obj['kind'] + ":  " + obj['options']['name'])
             self.new_object(obj['kind'], obj['options']['name'], obj_init, active=False, fit=False, plot=True)
-
         self.plot_all()
         self.inform.emit("[success] Project loaded from: " + filename)
 

FlatCAMObj.py

@@ -106,7 +106,12 @@ class FlatCAMObj(QtCore.QObject):
             if attr == 'options':
                 self.options.update(d[attr])
             else:
-                setattr(self, attr, d[attr])
+                try:
+                    setattr(self, attr, d[attr])
+                except KeyError:
+                    log.debug("FlatCAMObj.from_dict() --> KeyError: %s. Means that we are loading an old project that don't"
+                              "have all attributes in the latest FlatCAM." % str(attr))
+                    pass
 
     def on_options_change(self, key):
         # Update form on programmatically options change

ObjectUI.py

@@ -390,16 +390,19 @@ class GerberObjectUI(ObjectUI):
         # Rounded corners
         self.noncopper_rounded_cb = FCCheckBox(label="Rounded corners")
         self.noncopper_rounded_cb.setToolTip(
-            "Creates a Geometry objects with polygons\n"
+            "Resulting geometry will have rounded corners."
-            "covering the copper-free areas of the PCB."
         )
-        grid4.addWidget(self.noncopper_rounded_cb, 1, 0, 1, 2)
+        grid4.addWidget(self.noncopper_rounded_cb, 1, 0)
 
-        self.generate_noncopper_button = QtWidgets.QPushButton('Generate Geometry')
+        self.generate_noncopper_button = QtWidgets.QPushButton('Generate Geo')
-        self.custom_box.addWidget(self.generate_noncopper_button)
+        grid4.addWidget(self.generate_noncopper_button, 1, 1)
 
         ## Bounding box
         self.boundingbox_label = QtWidgets.QLabel('<b>Bounding Box:</b>')
+        self.boundingbox_label.setToolTip(
+            "Create a geometry surrounding the Gerber object.\n"
+            "Square shape."
+        )
         self.custom_box.addWidget(self.boundingbox_label)
 
         grid5 = QtWidgets.QGridLayout()
@@ -421,13 +424,13 @@ class GerberObjectUI(ObjectUI):
             "their radius is equal to\n"
             "the margin."
         )
-        grid5.addWidget(self.bbrounded_cb, 1, 0, 1, 2)
+        grid5.addWidget(self.bbrounded_cb, 1, 0)
 
-        self.generate_bb_button = QtWidgets.QPushButton('Generate Geometry')
+        self.generate_bb_button = QtWidgets.QPushButton('Generate Geo')
         self.generate_bb_button.setToolTip(
-            "Genrate the Geometry object."
+            "Generate the Geometry object."
         )
-        self.custom_box.addWidget(self.generate_bb_button)
+        grid5.addWidget(self.generate_bb_button, 1, 1)
 
 
 class ExcellonObjectUI(ObjectUI):

README.md

@@ -12,7 +12,10 @@ CAD program, and create G-Code for Isolation routing.
 19.02.2019
 
 - added the ability to compress the FlatCAM project on save with LZMA compression. There is a setting in Edit -> Preferences -> Compression Level between 0 and 9. 9 level yields best compression at the price of RAM usage and time spent.
-- made FlatCAM able to load old type (uncompressed) FlatCAM projects 
+- made FlatCAM able to load old type (uncompressed) FlatCAM projects
+- fixed issue with not loading old projects that do not have certain information's required by the new versions of FlatCAM
+- compacted a bit more the GUI for Gerber Object
+
 
 18.02.2019