Hi,
I developed my first project on a 78x39 stripboard, and it was slow ! And yes, there’s a message to warn you.
I worked in the breadboard view, placing the parts before breaking and linking the strips.
What I noticed was that as the project was routed, performance went up and became quite acceptable at the end.
I conclude that Fritzing was trying to make sense of my placement-only design and that this was computationally intensive.
Here’s my suggestion : have a routing/initial wiring mode which disables the calculation and allows you to rough out the design before asking Fritzing to interpret what you’re doing.
I’m glad I stuck with Fritzing through the period of poor performance because the end result is very successful and it’s a tool well-adapted to the job of designing for stripboard. Thanks.
You would be best to make this suggestion on github as an enhancement request.
The developers do sometimes read the forums, but they pay more attention to github.
This open topic may be the correct place to report this
as there hasn’t been any comment since 2021.
Peter
Hi Peter. OK, will do.
If you know what you did to cause and clear the problem, please detail it on github. Often being able to recreate the issue is key to solving it.
Peter
I’ve worked with Fritzing before, and the lag during the initial setup can be frustrating. When I was designing my own project, it took a while to get the layout right, but once I started routing it, the performance improved a lot, just like you experienced. Your idea for a routing mode sounds like it would really help streamline the process; it’s tough when the software has to crunch numbers just to figure out what you’re trying to do.