Version 6.0 no longer compatible with FreeRouting.net

On 14/12/2011 01:56, Mawrob wrote:

Hi,

 

Just wanted to let folk know who use FreeRouting that the brd_to_dsn ulp no longer works and throws the following error:

 

file path(119)

syntax error

 

and stops at:

 

real mm2u(real val)

 

The new "copy from" feature also blew up and threw a bunch of errors.  I have an email into support and hopefully it is a mistake on my part and not a major bug.

 

Version 6.0 appears to have some great new features but the schematics, boards, and libraries do not appear compatible with 5.11.  I made the mistake of upgrading without backing up my main library and have lost about a months worth of footprints.

 

Be aware!

 

Thanks

Hi,

 

Just wanted to let folk know who use FreeRouting that the brd_to_dsn ulp no longer works and throws the following error:

 

file path(119)

syntax error

 

and stops at:

 

real mm2u(real val)

 

The new "copy from" feature also blew up and threw a bunch of errors.  I have an email into support and hopefully it is a mistake on my part and not a major bug.

 

Version 6.0 appears to have some great new features but the schematics, boards, and libraries do not appear compatible with 5.11.  I made the mistake of upgrading without backing up my main library and have lost about a months worth of footprints.

 

Be aware!

 

Thanks

 

Correct. It is due to the fact that 3 subroutines (mm2u is one of them)

are now a default name in EAGLE v6, causing a conflict. I resolved that

by changing the first letter of these routines to uppercase (Mm2u, etc)

in the ULP. I did not bother to look if the default routines can replace

the existing code in the brd_to_dsn ulp.

This ULP then runs correctly.

One problem remains:

The SCR output file now has floating point numbers for the via size,

which confuses EAGLE. Have not found a solution yet. I might need to set

the grid to a different value.

Robert

NB since the brd_to_dsn ulp is 64 KB, I don't think I can attach it.

On 12/14/2011 5:12 AM, Robert wrote:

On 14/12/2011 01:56, Mawrob wrote:

>> Hi,

>>

>> Just wanted to let folk know who use FreeRouting that the brd_to_dsn

>> ulp no longer works and throws the following error:

>>

>> file path(119)

>> syntax error

>>

>> and stops at:

>>

>> real mm2u(real val)

>>

>> The new "copy from" feature also blew up and threw a bunch of errors.

>> I have an email into support and hopefully it is a mistake on my part

>> and not a major bug.

>>

>> Version 6.0 appears to have some great new features but the

>> schematics, boards, and libraries do not appear compatible with 5.11.

>> I made the mistake of upgrading without backing up my main library and

>> have lost about a months worth of footprints.

>>

>> Be aware!

>>

>> Thanks

>> Hi,

>>

>> Just wanted to let folk know who use FreeRouting that the brd_to_dsn

>> ulp no longer works and throws the following error:

>>

>> file path(119)

>> syntax error

>>

>> and stops at:

>>

>> real mm2u(real val)

>>

>> The new "copy from" feature also blew up and threw a bunch of errors.

>> I have an email into support and hopefully it is a mistake on my part

>> and not a major bug.

>>

>> Version 6.0 appears to have some great new features but the

>> schematics, boards, and libraries do not appear compatible with 5.11.

>> I made the mistake of upgrading without backing up my main library and

>> have lost about a months worth of footprints.

>>

>> Be aware!

>>

>> Thanks

>>

Correct. It is due to the fact that 3 subroutines (mm2u is one of them)

are now a default name in EAGLE v6, causing a conflict. I resolved that

by changing the first letter of these routines to uppercase (Mm2u, etc)

in the ULP. I did not bother to look if the default routines can replace

the existing code in the brd_to_dsn ulp.

This ULP then runs correctly.

 

One problem remains:

 

The SCR output file now has floating point numbers for the via size,

which confuses EAGLE. Have not found a solution yet. I might need to set

the grid to a different value.

 

Robert

 

NB since the brd_to_dsn ulp is 64 KB, I don't think I can attach it.

Robert,

Please clarify what you mean.  Are libraries, schematics & boards

created in 5.11 not usable in 6, or is it just that once you've saved

the files you brought into 6 they can no longer open in 5.11?

On 14.12.2011 16:01, John Friede wrote:

On 12/14/2011 5:12 AM, Robert wrote:

>> On 14/12/2011 01:56, Mawrob wrote:

>>> Hi,

>>>

>>> Just wanted to let folk know who use FreeRouting that the brd_to_dsn

>>> ulp no longer works and throws the following error:

>>>

>>> file path(119)

>>> syntax error

>>>

>>> and stops at:

>>>

>>> real mm2u(real val)

>>>

>>> The new "copy from" feature also blew up and threw a bunch of errors.

>>> I have an email into support and hopefully it is a mistake on my part

>>> and not a major bug.

>>>

>>> Version 6.0 appears to have some great new features but the

>>> schematics, boards, and libraries do not appear compatible with 5.11.

>>> I made the mistake of upgrading without backing up my main library and

>>> have lost about a months worth of footprints.

>>>

>>> Be aware!

>>>

>>> Thanks

>>> Hi,

>>>

>>> Just wanted to let folk know who use FreeRouting that the brd_to_dsn

>>> ulp no longer works and throws the following error:

>>>

>>> file path(119)

>>> syntax error

>>>

>>> and stops at:

>>>

>>> real mm2u(real val)

>>>

>>> The new "copy from" feature also blew up and threw a bunch of errors.

>>> I have an email into support and hopefully it is a mistake on my part

>>> and not a major bug.

>>>

>>> Version 6.0 appears to have some great new features but the

>>> schematics, boards, and libraries do not appear compatible with 5.11.

>>> I made the mistake of upgrading without backing up my main library and

>>> have lost about a months worth of footprints.

>>>

>>> Be aware!

>>>

>>> Thanks

>>>

>> Correct. It is due to the fact that 3 subroutines (mm2u is one of them)

>> are now a default name in EAGLE v6, causing a conflict. I resolved that

>> by changing the first letter of these routines to uppercase (Mm2u, etc)

>> in the ULP. I did not bother to look if the default routines can replace

>> the existing code in the brd_to_dsn ulp.

>> This ULP then runs correctly.

>>

>> One problem remains:

>>

>> The SCR output file now has floating point numbers for the via size,

>> which confuses EAGLE. Have not found a solution yet. I might need to set

>> the grid to a different value.

>>

>> Robert

>>

>> NB since the brd_to_dsn ulp is 64 KB, I don't think I can attach it.

 

Robert,

Please clarify what you mean. Are libraries, schematics & boards created

in 5.11 not usable in 6, or is it just that once you've saved the files

you brought into 6 they can no longer open in 5.11?

All files from versions prior to V6 can be used in V6, but as soon

as you save such a file in V6 you can't load it in one of the

previous versions.

--

Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best regards

Richard Hammerl

  CadSoft Support -- hotline@cadsoft.de

  FAQ: http://www.cadsoft.de/training/faq/

On 14.12.2011 16:01, John Friede wrote:

On 12/14/2011 5:12 AM, Robert wrote:

>> On 14/12/2011 01:56, Mawrob wrote:

>>> Hi,

>>>

>>> Just wanted to let folk know who use FreeRouting that the brd_to_dsn

>>> ulp no longer works and throws the following error:

>>>

>>> file path(119)

>>> syntax error

>>>

>>> and stops at:

>>>

>>> real mm2u(real val)

>>>

>>> The new "copy from" feature also blew up and threw a bunch of errors.

>>> I have an email into support and hopefully it is a mistake on my part

>>> and not a major bug.

>>>

>>> Version 6.0 appears to have some great new features but the

>>> schematics, boards, and libraries do not appear compatible with 5.11.

>>> I made the mistake of upgrading without backing up my main library and

>>> have lost about a months worth of footprints.

>>>

>>> Be aware!

>>>

>>> Thanks

>>> Hi,

>>>

>>> Just wanted to let folk know who use FreeRouting that the brd_to_dsn

>>> ulp no longer works and throws the following error:

>>>

>>> file path(119)

>>> syntax error

>>>

>>> and stops at:

>>>

>>> real mm2u(real val)

>>>

>>> The new "copy from" feature also blew up and threw a bunch of errors.

>>> I have an email into support and hopefully it is a mistake on my part

>>> and not a major bug.

>>>

>>> Version 6.0 appears to have some great new features but the

>>> schematics, boards, and libraries do not appear compatible with 5.11.

>>> I made the mistake of upgrading without backing up my main library and

>>> have lost about a months worth of footprints.

>>>

>>> Be aware!

>>>

>>> Thanks

>>>

>> Correct. It is due to the fact that 3 subroutines (mm2u is one of them)

>> are now a default name in EAGLE v6, causing a conflict. I resolved that

>> by changing the first letter of these routines to uppercase (Mm2u, etc)

>> in the ULP. I did not bother to look if the default routines can replace

>> the existing code in the brd_to_dsn ulp.

>> This ULP then runs correctly.

>>

>> One problem remains:

>>

>> The SCR output file now has floating point numbers for the via size,

>> which confuses EAGLE. Have not found a solution yet. I might need to set

>> the grid to a different value.

>>

>> Robert

>>

>> NB since the brd_to_dsn ulp is 64 KB, I don't think I can attach it.

 

Robert,

Please clarify what you mean. Are libraries, schematics & boards created

in 5.11 not usable in 6, or is it just that once you've saved the files

you brought into 6 they can no longer open in 5.11?

All files from versions prior to V6 can be used in V6, but as soon

as you save such a file in V6 you can't load it in one of the

previous versions.

--

Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best regards

Richard Hammerl

  CadSoft Support -- hotline@cadsoft.de

  FAQ: http://www.cadsoft.de/training/faq/

Thanks for the helpful suggestion.  I managed to find a number of parts in existing V5 schematics and I was able to use: exp-project-lbr.ulp (I think) to export my parts to a local library. 

The strength of Eagle is definitely the community of users.

Mawrob <communitymanager@premierfarnell.com> wrote:

Sorry about the confusion: the latter -

"once you've saved the files

you brought into 6 they can no longer open in 5.11?"

I made the foolish mistake of updating my library in 6.0.? Now that we have had to revert back to

5.11 my library is naturally unusable and we have lost a month of changes because we were careless a

nd did not back up all our Eagle data before upgrading.

Try to export as script in 6.0 and import the script in 5.11. If it chokes,

write a filter. Otherwise a backup can also help  

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Mawrob <communitymanager@premierfarnell.com> wrote:

Sorry about the confusion: the latter -

"once you've saved the files

you brought into 6 they can no longer open in 5.11?"

I made the foolish mistake of updating my library in 6.0.  Now that we have had to revert back to 5.11 my library is naturally unusable and we have lost a month of changes because we were careless and did not back up all our Eagle data before upgrading.

Try to export as script bin 6.0 and import in 5.11. If it chokes, write a filter.

--

Uwe Bonnes                bon@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de

Institut fuer Kernphysik  Schlossgartenstrasse 9  64289 Darmstadt

-

Tel. 06151 162516 -

Fax. 06151 164321 -

Warren Brayshaw wrote:

I suspect you may be able to rebuild the v5 library from the v6

library by using the ULP at

 

ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/eagle/userfiles/ulp/lbr-contents-dump.zip

 

Open the v6 version of the library.

Run the ULP. It will place files in a new folder in the v6 library

directory

Then in v5 build a new library using those script files

 

I have not tested this other than looking at the files produced by v5

running the ULP. Hopefully v6 will run the ULP (Some ULPs will need

modifying to run in v6)

 

Note I did have to modify the ULP include file to get past file paths

with spaces so use the attached file (modified).

 

Worth a try.

Warren

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I should have pointed out that  this solution is for the Windows environment

as the ULP uses system() to start the CMD processor of windows. Here it

makes the new folder to place the files into.

That would need to be modified mac and linux

Warren

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I suspect you may be able to rebuild the v5 library from the v6 library by

using the ULP at

ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/eagle/userfiles/ulp/lbr-contents-dump.zip

Open the v6 version of the library.

Run the ULP. It will place files in a new folder in the v6 library

directory

Then in v5 build a new library using those script files

I have not tested this other than looking at the files produced by v5

running the ULP. Hopefully v6 will run the ULP (Some ULPs will need

modifying to run in v6)

Note I did have to modify the ULP include file to get past file paths with

spaces so use the attached file (modified).

Worth a try.

Warren

--

Web access to CadSoft support forums at www.eaglecentral.ca.  Where the CadSoft EAGLE community meets.

Sorry about the confusion: the latter -

"once you've saved the files

you brought into 6 they can no longer open in 5.11?"

I made the foolish mistake of updating my library in 6.0.  Now that we have had to revert back to 5.11 my library is naturally unusable and we have lost a month of changes because we were careless and did not back up all our Eagle data before upgrading.