[TriEmbed] Eagle 7.4 autorouter & file handling flakey?

[Robert Gasiorowski]

I have a totally different experience.
I use Eagle on Mac and I am very happy with version 7, no more problems
that I had in v6 and below.
There are still couple of minor issues, but nothing that would steer me
away from Eagle.

As for auto-router, I never use it, it's pretty much useless.
The "proper" way to use auto-router is to 1) manually run tracks that are
important, 2) run auto, 3) rip up things that look bad, 4) manually correct
tracks, 5) repeat from step 2), 6) finish with manual tweaks.

Rob.


On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Glen Smith via TriEmbed <
triembed at triembed.org> wrote:

> 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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