[TriEmbed] Eagle 7.4 autorouter & file handling flakey?

[Glen Smith]

If I recall correctly Dave Jones of the eevblog 'recently' called it quits
with Eagle and moved to kiCad due to frequent crashes, I don't know for
sure what OS he was using, but I'm betting it was Linux of some flavor.

Glen

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015, 2:19 PM Pete Soper via TriEmbed <triembed at triembed.org>
wrote:

> <rant>I wonder if the otherwise intelligent people at Cadsoft have any
> idea how brain-dead it is to play with the menu bar icons, changing
> their appearance for the sake of changing them? I was forced to jump to
> 7.4 this morning and wasted a lot of time finding things because,
> although the mouse pointer was going to the right area, I had to stop
> and let the text confirm I really had the thing I was after. Switching
> back and forth between 7 and 6 is going to be painful. I'm coming up to
> speed with Kicad but having to use Eagle part of the time until nearly
> the end of time is the same flavor reality as having to use Windows.
> Speaking of, this icon change is right out of the Windows play book.
> You'd think the wisdom on this subject would be in the water supply by
> now. On the other hand, I guess if Cadsoft was trying to emulate
> Microsoft they'd have hidden the tool bar so you couldn't even find it
> in less than a few minutes.</rant>
>
> But I'm writing to see if anybody else has seen the autorouter make big
> mistakes, like putting a trace right through a pour instead of leaving
> it unrouted or installing the expected vias and routing across the other
> side? I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this.
>
> What about the program crashing when you say "yes, do a save before
> proceeding to run the autorouter"? What I saw was a long hang while
> trying to write the files (permissions were golden: it had written those
> files multiple times in previous minutes). Then the app crashed. This is
> on 64 bit Ubuntu 14.04.
>
> -Pete
>
>
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