{"id":253,"date":"2017-07-15T10:05:04","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T22:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.herbert.org.nz\/?p=253"},"modified":"2017-07-15T10:05:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T22:05:04","slug":"freerouter-with-kicad-on-osx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herbert.org.nz\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"Freerouter with Kicad on OSX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The online version of the freerouter tool is no longer available (\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerouting.net\/\">http:\/\/www.freerouting.net\/<\/a>\u00a0)<\/p>\n<p>The source is now available and to get the &#8216;Export a Specctra Design and Launch FreeRoute&#8217; button active in PCBNew on OS X, you need to download the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/freerouting\/freerouting\/blob\/master\/binaries\/FreeRouting.jar\">Freerouting.jar<\/a>\u00a0file. Since the Kicad <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/KiCad\/kicad-source-mirror\/blob\/master\/pcbnew\/dialogs\/dialog_freeroute_exchange.cpp#L74\">source code<\/a> looks for a file named freeroute.jar you&#8217;ll need to rename your downloaded file this. Place your renamed file in \/Applications\/Kicad\/kicad.app\/Contents\/MacOS\/ and now when you are in PCBNew and click &#8216;Tools -&gt; Freeroute&#8217; the &#8216;Export a Specctra Design and Launch FreeRoute&#8217; \u00a0button will be active.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The online version of the freerouter tool is no longer available (\u00a0http:\/\/www.freerouting.net\/\u00a0) The source is now available and to get the &#8216;Export a Specctra Design and Launch FreeRoute&#8217; button active in PCBNew on OS X, you need to download the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.herbert.org.nz\/?p=253\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kicad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herbert.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herbert.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herbert.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herbert.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herbert.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.herbert.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/www.herbert.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herbert.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herbert.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herbert.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}