[SOLVED] Eagle, Electra and power planes: Electra crash

[JanuszJG]

I have a question about Eagle 6.1.0 in combination with Electra 2.9.3.

I want to work with ground planes on my PCB’s but I get a error (crash) with Electra 2.9.3. I try this on two systems 32 and 64 Bit with the same result.

This is what I do:

• I made a schematic in Eagle (for now only three components) with +5v, +12v and GND
• I create a board and place the components
• Then I run the ULP file from Electra: PCB_To_DSN_v6x.ulp and use the standard Eagle design file: default.dru . (I only change in de default.dru to use bottom layer 16)
• Then opens Electra Auto Router Setup and I change only the Layer Type into PwrGnd
• I save this DSN file and open it in Electra
• Electra immediately crashes and show this log file:

All I want is that Electra is routing my board with a ground plane / power plane

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# Writing all output to: D:\6\untitled.log
Routing with undefined Via
Error - No board outline found! - Please exit and add a board outline
Pin undefined
Pin undefined
Pin undefined
Pin undefined
Pin undefined
Pin undefined
Pin undefined


I can’t find on internet a solution for this. Attached are the files in zip format. (I made for this purpose a very simple schematic)

I really hope that someone is going to say to me, …. You have to change this and then it will work.

Janusz

 

[JanuszJG]

I have a question about Eagle 6.1.0 in combination with Electra 2.9.3.

I want to work with ground planes on my PCB’s but I get a error (crash) with Electra 2.9.3. I try this on two systems 32 and 64 Bit with the same result.

This is what I do:

• I made a schematic in Eagle (for now only three components) with +5v, +12v and GND
• I create a board and place the components
• Then I run the ULP file from Electra: PCB_To_DSN_v6x.ulp and use the standard Eagle design file: default.dru . (I only change in de default.dru to use bottom layer 16)
• Then opens Electra Auto Router Setup and I change only the Layer Type into PwrGnd
• I save this DSN file and open it in Electra
• Electra immediately crashes and show this log file:

All I want is that Electra is routing my board with a ground plane / power plane

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Writing all output to: D:\6\untitled.log
Routing with undefined Via
Error - No board outline found! - Please exit and add a board outline
Pin undefined
Pin undefined
Pin undefined
Pin undefined
Pin undefined
Pin undefined
Pin undefined


I can’t find on internet a solution for this. Attached are the files in zip format. (I made for this purpose a very simple schematic)

I really hope that someone is going to say to me, …. You have to change this and then it will work.

Janusz

Fixed by myself

Route the board in Electra, import it back in Eagle and design a Polygon. All works

For me this is a very good workaround with the result what I want to have.