I installed a new version of Freerouting (1.9.0) and had to hunt around to find where it went. It’s installed under KiCad now - the old version I had was part of LayoutEditor. I am guessing this means it is somehow integrated into KiCad but I can’t figure out where to find it in the menus. The Tools->External Plugins choice is empty. What’s the new way to run it?
Thanks,
Lloyd
No it’s a separate project. The plugin may happen to use the KiCad user directories. So issues with Freerouting should be reported to their GitHub site, not here.
PS: You may wish to consider upgrading to KiCad 7.
Thanks, I prefer to stay a full release behind, that’s worked well for me so far.
Thank you for telling me how to run it. It immediately threw a Java exception. I went to the Github page for Freerouting and saw that they require a different version of Java, from the Eclipse people. When I loaded that and used it to run, Freerouting worked well and quickly.
Evidently you stayed too many Java versions behind. But Java versioning is a dog’s breakfast. It was 1.x for an eternity, then it jumped to 5, and now 21 is the LTS, with 17 the pentultimate. Fortunately my distro supplies a sufficient recent LTS version without any effort from me.
Well there’s no reason to anyway. It has a different set of developers, it’s not KiCad specific, using the DSN/SES interface, and there are questions about whether it’s truly unencumbered.