[delfinom]

>(Edit to add: Oh yeah, any time you click to change a file, any environment variables you had in the path get replaced with the absolute path, so things which had been perfectly resilient against path breakage get brittle again automatically!)

Where? Many of the editing fields are supposed to resolve paths back to variables when possible.

[myself248]

Footprint editor. Footprint properties. 3D models.

There's currently a model specified, with a path of:

${OneDrive}/KicadAssets/vendor/model-1.stp

Suppose it's the wrong model and I need to update it. Click on the pathname and at the right edge of the text box, a little folder icon appears. Click the icon and a file browser pops up. Click the correct model.

The path is now:

C:/Users/firstname.lastname/OneDrive - Companyname/KicadAssets/vendor/model-2.stp

And anyone else using this library with my OneDrive share, will see a broken model because the firstname.lastname part of their path is different.