OK I understand there’s loads of “autorouter haters” out there, I get it and I even understand it a little (long enough to get a straight answer here anyway). So I’ve done the manual placement and ratsnest, generated the autoroute and produced Gerbers and I have an actual PCB back and I’m troubleshooting it. Now I’d simply like to open the layout tool and see if I can look at the layout and find the errant trace. Oh no I don’t get to do that, I open layout view and all I see is my original ratsnest view! Come on just because I did an external route it shouldn’t make it harder to actually use the daggone tool, what am I supposed to have to do open an external viewer for the “perfidy” of using this router which is completely suitable for my purposes? Or do I have to reimport the .SES file each time I want to see what I sent out? That just isn’t terribly user-friendly, I’m sure there must be a better way!!
I didn’t use the autorouter much after I installed it but I think after you import it and do a save it should be there each time you open it. Everything looked OK once you did the initial import in pcbnew and the 3d viewer?
Obligatory question. Which version of Kicad and what OS?
Yes, you need to reimport .SES file each time it is modified by external tools. And no, it shouldn’t be automatic because operations that modify the board should never happen without user’s input or choice.
Oh yeah, 5.1.2 and Win 10 Pro. (I’m doing 4 boards at once and I recall testing the router on all of them although the board I’m looking at right now hasn’t been sent out yet.) Is the .SES import supposed to be autosaved into the layout? Maybe I “forgot” (never knew) to manually save it. Anyway I’m still trying to learn to use this tool and with the one I’m used to the router just left the file that had been routed (the one that generated the Gerbers) as the one you saw next when you reopened the tool, with this one I guess you have to do things a certain way to make that happen.
Never mind, just figured out I didn’t import the .SES
files for all of them like I thought - oops!
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