It is! Thanks anyway! Dave Sanders
-----Original Message----- From: Igor Gmitrovic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 1:38 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Unable to Initialize Dave, may sound trivial, but check your licence setting and make sure the autorouter is enabled. Regards Igor -----Original Message----- From: Sanders, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 6 December 2002 1:43 PM To: 'Protel EDA Forum' Subject: Re: [PEDA] Unable to Initialize Thanks to all who replied to this thread. All the suggestions were tried, but still no joy. Have now bit the bullet and started again. (Why on earth couldn't the software designers be a little more informative than a cryptic "Unable to Initialize"?? ) Big Sigh ! Cheers. Dave Sanders -----Original Message----- From: DUTTON Phil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 5:38 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Unable to Initialize Hello Dave, Things that you may have tried..... -repair the database -in the explorer panel under documents, delete the .cfg file (don't ask, but this has worked with other problems) -create a new database and copy your design elements into it. -ensure that no valid footprints intersect or are outside of the keepout. If there's no IP problems, zip up the .ddb and email it to me offline. I can have a quick look - think of it as customer relations..... Phil. -----Original Message----- From: Sanders, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 5 December 2002 3:24 PM To: 'Protel EDA Forum' Subject: Re: [PEDA] Unable to Initialize Hi Phil, still kicking I see. Thanks for the reply! Hugh Stevenson and Dennis Saputelli too, thanks. I wish it was the keep-out layer problem. I've had that problem in the past so that was the first thing that occurred to me, but no such luck. I've tried everything I can think of. I may need to start the pcb layout again. Dave Sanders -----Original Message----- From: DUTTON Phil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 12:14 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Unable to Initialize Hello Dave, I usually don't use the autorouter, but have seen this occur when the keepout layer is not correctly defined. More of a keep-in approach with an outline on the 'keepout' layer defining the area in which the autorouter can work. I think that arcs and gaps can be a problem. regards, Phil. -----Original Message----- From: Sanders, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 5 December 2002 11:38 AM To: 'Protel EDA Forum' Subject: [PEDA] Unable to Initialize Has anyone out there ever experienced the wonderfully informative message "Unable to Initialize" when trying to autoroute. I really need some hints on what can cause this error. The Protel knowledge base comes up with nothing. I am running 99SE SP6 on a Win NT4 machine, designing a 6 layer board (4 sig. 2 pwr.), not particularly dense. Dave Sanders * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
