Hi This is my nightmare come true. Some of you will recall my concerns earlier about our almost complete dependence on FreeRouter and my calls for another autorouting solution. It looks like the time for QAutorouter may have arrived at last.
As soon as I get back tonight I will remove the FreeRouting files on the wiki. If the copyrights are in question we have to move away from FreeRouting. Fortunately KiCAD is still usable without FreeRouting. Thanks and have a nice day! Andrew Lynch -------------------------------------------- On Sun, 6/22/14, yoda <[email protected]> wrote: Subject: Re: [N8VEM-S100:4339] Re: FreeRouter No longer available. Long term plans for Board layouts To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Date: Sunday, June 22, 2014, 9:02 PM Ah - thanks for the clarification. Dave On Sunday, June 22, 2014 7:42:11 PM UTC-5, monahanz wrote:Perhaps we’re OK Dave. It’s just that the “Zuken” (whoever he/it is) is accusing the author of copyright infringement etc. It may be he will want Andrew to remove the link as well. Time to download it/use it, may be limited!!!John From: [email protected] [mailto:n8vem...@ googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of yoda Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2014 5:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [N8VEM-S100:4336] Re: FreeRouter No longer available. Long term plans for Board layouts I don't understand what the problem is ? The code is here http://n8vem-sbc.pbworks. com/w/browse/#view=ViewFolder& param=FreeRouting-net and works fine? It is actually easier to run locally then from their web site. Am I missing something? Dave On Sunday, June 22, 2014 5:41:53 PM UTC-5, monahanz wrote:It looks like the http://www.freerouting.net/ web site for FreeRouter is no longer available! This leaves us with a big problem making PC boards with KiCad. (Fortunately I happen to have the PC version here for my own use), but it opens up a general question as to how we do PC boards (S100 and others) in the future. Personally I'm having a hard time getting things done with KiCad. The PCBNew program seems (to me) very "finicy" in making files for Freerouter. I'm wondering what other people think about a more "All-in-one" PC CAD program. I once used a program called DipTrace (they have a free version for up to 500 pins to try it out). See here http://diptrace.com/. The thing that impressed me was the speed in which it converted the schematic into an actual board file and Gurber files. There was only one program, one interface. Personally I would spring for paying for the 1000 pin commercial version (or heigher) , I and perhaps others, could run batches for others. The main issue is that for any program we would have to build a library for the S100 connector, board dimensions and presumably a number of other things. I would be interested in hearing comments by others on a way to proceed. Has anybody else used CAD programs they like. Anybody got experience with DipTrace John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "N8VEM-S100" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to n8vem-s100+...@ googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "N8VEM-S100" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "N8VEM-S100" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
