Mac OS 10.12 (Sierra), Kicad (version info below)
Downloaded latest FreeRouting.jar as part of https://freerouting.org/freerouting/using-with-kicad
Latest Jave Runtime and JDK’s installed… System rebooted cleanly after all installs.
When I start the FreeRouting.jar and open up a freshly .dsn file, I get only:
No need to give kicad version info. Freerouting is not part of the kicad project. (Never was, never will be. Mainly because of licensing concerns and wrong language used.)
The original freerouting package is not maintained as far as i know. There are now many different branches around that all have slightly different feature sets. Some of them might not support all the new features added to kicad version 5 (I seem to remember that rounded rectangle pads are a problem for some branches of it.)
Is there any way I can export the .dsn in an earlier format so that I can use SOME version of freerouting? Can anyone recommend a version of FreeRouting that WILL work under Mac OS with output from Kicad 5?
Sooner or later Freerouting is going to stop working, either because of Java changes or the details of how KiCad works.
As it is written in Java, has a different code licence and some controversy about its origins, it is very hard to merge it into KiCad.