This (and related) issues have been mentioned before, but as I am on a complex project, the multiple unexpected changes are frustrating. Examples are the PCB randomly reverting from 2-sided to 1-sided, for no known reason upon saving. Another is the PCB part labels becoming grayed and non-selectable. The parts were fine, but no changes to “bring forward” or access from the bottom helped to select the labels.
My mention of these and other issues is only a concern, that while it was (eventually) easy to replace the PCB with another fresh PCB that functioned properly — I don’t know why this is happening, nor how it can be avoided.
Any help in this regard is most welcome, as I cannot afford to expend more time researching and experimenting to fix or work-around random faults. Thanks!
Insufficient information to do anything with. Upload the sketch (the .fzz file, upload is 7th icon from the left in the reply menu) so we can try it and see what happens. What Fritzing version you are using (Fritzing 1.0.5 is the latest version) would also be useful. The greyed out labels may be from the layer settings.
Board configuration changing on save sounds like bad permissions or a network drive causing the settings files to get stored incorrectly which would be a local system issue. I have never experienced this in the 10 years I have been using Fritzing.
Thanks for replying, Peter. My designs that had issues have been fixed, so I don’t have one to offer that has ‘issues’. The changes are not always on save, and the last one (unclickable labels) occurred in the middle of working on a board, when the labels suddenly went gray.
I am using paid 1.0.5, installed a couple weeks ago, up from 1.0.2. Windows 10, fully up-to-date, no other issues with the machine that I’ve seen in 3 years of using it.
I am also on Win10 on Fritzing 1.0.5 and have seen no issues. Are you using the local disk for storage (not a network drive?) There have been similar issues with Onedrive in the past. That is the only problem I am aware of. It sounds like the config files are being corrupted somehow either via a network drive of some other way but there have been no recent reports of problems like this.
Yes, local drive only. It’s the mid-stream change that disturbs me more. Thanks for your reply. With the added issue that I can’t now find PCB assemblers that can use Fritzing files, I may have to change programs anyway. Bummer after so many years with Fritzing and creating new stuff on the paid new version than may be unusable to make stuff after all. I’ve been pressing forward, mumbling “I’ll deal with that when I get there”, but I may be ‘there’ already.
Both Aisler and pcbway can assemble boards from Fritizng files. At least pcbway is somewhat complex as you have to generate a pick and place file they can use manually but someone reported a few years ago that they were successful at it (and what they did to do it.)
Hi guys !
Aisler is a good alternative for EU citizens, not expensive and support open source projects like Fritzing…
I order multiple PCBs for my Pico projects (Fritzing source)
Cheers & happy coding !
I’ve been pressing forward, mumbling “I’ll deal with that when I get there”, but I may be ‘there’ already.