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Re: Gryphon 68030 [message #2115 is a reply to message #2114] Mon, 27 March 2017 09:30 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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mikemac wrote on Mon, 27 March 2017 12:18


If it will let you! Sad

This morning it hadn't crashed, just hung. Not using any CPU cycles but still up. Won't stop autorouting but GUI responds. Saving the session file fails. "Save and Exit" quits but doesn't save.

And now every time I start freeroute up, Java Runtime Environment gets a SIGSEGV! Sad


FreeRouter is nothing if not very frustrating to use. There are multiple distributions of FreeRouter and some are more stable than others. I would keep trying them until you find the one that doesn't crash on your system. I just launch the FreeRouter.jar file from my KiCAD bin directory straight from the command prompt and it seems to work fine.

The thing with FreeRouter is that if it can't solve on its own within 20 passes then your PCB is almost certainly not going to converge on its own. You might be able to manually force it to converge but it will be such a mess it will take forever to trace route optimize. After a while, you start to like big loose boards like Gryphon since it converges on its own and optimizes quickly. Some of the past boards I worked on were a nightmare to trace route and optimize and they'd stay in for weeks with only so-so results. It would have been faster to manually trace route the entire thing.

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