Re: [kicad-users] native autorouter VS freerouting.net
Thanks a lot!! I'll test it asap! It could be fine to put these informations in the pdf or elsewhere Talk soon // from iPhone Le 17 mai 09 à 23:37, Brian Sidebotham brian.sidebot...@gmail.com a écrit : Hi Julien, It looks like a problem with your designators. A while back a problem was fixed with the specctra import where a component name began with a number instead of an alphabetical character. So your component 1pin should now parse correctly. I think your problem is with the reference designators for your component 1pin, they have no designator portion, only the number is present. So your 1pin component designators are for example 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. instead of something sane like J1, J2, J3, J4, J5, etc. Unfortunately I'm on a plane tomorrow and am packing now so I don't have the time to look at this any further, but I'm sure you can fix this by making sure your 1pin reference designators start with at least one alphabetical character (a-z) The KiCad autorouter is currently not as good as the freerouter.net version, so I would suggest using the freerouter version at the moment and importing the specctra session back into kicad as your are trying to do if you intend to autoroute boards. Best Regards, Brian Sidebotham. 2009/5/17 Julien Bayle julien.ba...@gmail.com: [Attachment(s) from Julien Bayle included below] hi Brian, here is the error message (in french, but I can translate it) here is the ses file from freerouting.net, too. I hope I can solve that ... as I wrote, I don't understand too why sometimes kicad doesn't autoroute anything :-( if it does, I don't use freerouting.net anymore but ... Julien 2009/5/17 Brian Sidebotham brian.sidebot...@gmail.com 2009/5/17 Julien Bayle julien.ba...@gmail.com: hi, I would want to autoroute my pcb. I tested native autorouter... on several pcb, it began to autoroute and finished . on some other, it didn't start and just displayed the whole unrouted wires. so, I tested freerouting.net it works everytime and it is pretty good! BUT, how to use the result from freerouting.net to kicad to finish my pcb ?? I tried to save the file as a session specctra file (.ses) but when I'm trying to import it in kiCad, there is an error message (expected component_id at line 7 etc etc) how can I solve my problem?? cheers, julien Hi Julien, It sounds like you are doing the right thing, so please post up the exact error message you get, and if possible attach your specctra session file. I'm sure someone will be able to help you further from there. Best Regards, Brian Sidebotham. Attachment(s) from Julien Bayle 1 of 1 Photo(s) error.jpg 1 of 1 File(s) PCB1.ses
Re: [kicad-users] native autorouter VS freerouting.net
2009/5/17 Julien Bayle julien.ba...@gmail.com: hi, I would want to autoroute my pcb. I tested native autorouter... on several pcb, it began to autoroute and finished . on some other, it didn't start and just displayed the whole unrouted wires. so, I tested freerouting.net it works everytime and it is pretty good! BUT, how to use the result from freerouting.net to kicad to finish my pcb ?? I tried to save the file as a session specctra file (.ses) but when I'm trying to import it in kiCad, there is an error message (expected component_id at line 7 etc etc) how can I solve my problem?? cheers, julien Hi Julien, It sounds like you are doing the right thing, so please post up the exact error message you get, and if possible attach your specctra session file. I'm sure someone will be able to help you further from there. Best Regards, Brian Sidebotham.
Re: [kicad-users] native autorouter VS freerouting.net [2 Attachments]
hi Brian, here is the error message (in french, but I can translate it) here is the ses file from freerouting.net, too. I hope I can solve that ... as I wrote, I don't understand too why sometimes kicad doesn't autoroute anything :-( if it does, I don't use freerouting.net anymore but ... Julien 2009/5/17 Brian Sidebotham brian.sidebot...@gmail.com 2009/5/17 Julien Bayle julien.ba...@gmail.com julien.bayle%40gmail.com : hi, I would want to autoroute my pcb. I tested native autorouter... on several pcb, it began to autoroute and finished . on some other, it didn't start and just displayed the whole unrouted wires. so, I tested freerouting.net it works everytime and it is pretty good! BUT, how to use the result from freerouting.net to kicad to finish my pcb ?? I tried to save the file as a session specctra file (.ses) but when I'm trying to import it in kiCad, there is an error message (expected component_id at line 7 etc etc) how can I solve my problem?? cheers, julien Hi Julien, It sounds like you are doing the right thing, so please post up the exact error message you get, and if possible attach your specctra session file. I'm sure someone will be able to help you further from there. Best Regards, Brian Sidebotham.
Re: [kicad-users] native autorouter VS freerouting.net
Hi Julien, It looks like a problem with your designators. A while back a problem was fixed with the specctra import where a component name began with a number instead of an alphabetical character. So your component 1pin should now parse correctly. I think your problem is with the reference designators for your component 1pin, they have no designator portion, only the number is present. So your 1pin component designators are for example 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. instead of something sane like J1, J2, J3, J4, J5, etc. Unfortunately I'm on a plane tomorrow and am packing now so I don't have the time to look at this any further, but I'm sure you can fix this by making sure your 1pin reference designators start with at least one alphabetical character (a-z) The KiCad autorouter is currently not as good as the freerouter.net version, so I would suggest using the freerouter version at the moment and importing the specctra session back into kicad as your are trying to do if you intend to autoroute boards. Best Regards, Brian Sidebotham. 2009/5/17 Julien Bayle julien.ba...@gmail.com: [Attachment(s) from Julien Bayle included below] hi Brian, here is the error message (in french, but I can translate it) here is the ses file from freerouting.net, too. I hope I can solve that ... as I wrote, I don't understand too why sometimes kicad doesn't autoroute anything :-( if it does, I don't use freerouting.net anymore but ... Julien 2009/5/17 Brian Sidebotham brian.sidebot...@gmail.com 2009/5/17 Julien Bayle julien.ba...@gmail.com: hi, I would want to autoroute my pcb. I tested native autorouter... on several pcb, it began to autoroute and finished . on some other, it didn't start and just displayed the whole unrouted wires. so, I tested freerouting.net it works everytime and it is pretty good! BUT, how to use the result from freerouting.net to kicad to finish my pcb ?? I tried to save the file as a session specctra file (.ses) but when I'm trying to import it in kiCad, there is an error message (expected component_id at line 7 etc etc) how can I solve my problem?? cheers, julien Hi Julien, It sounds like you are doing the right thing, so please post up the exact error message you get, and if possible attach your specctra session file. I'm sure someone will be able to help you further from there. Best Regards, Brian Sidebotham. Attachment(s) from Julien Bayle 1 of 1 Photo(s) error.jpg 1 of 1 File(s) PCB1.ses