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[17.2] PCB Designer crashes every time DRC is run

D Campbell

Hello everyone,

I recently moved to 17.2 but I'm running into a problem.  For a certain design the application will crash without any errors or notification if I run the DRC.  Strangely enough it only does this when I am using one of my designs(IE .brd file).  If I use a different design it doesn't crash.  

Does anyone know what could be causing this?  It's very annoying because it also locks the licence file so I have to wait a couple of hours for the licence use to be reset.  

Thank you,

Dylan

  • S0undman99

    have you run dbDoctor?  I always run dbDoctor in these situations.  It should be in like Tools--> Database Check, and then click on Check (or there is a command prompt version).  Run it, and it should give you a quick readout of what's "broken" and event try to fix things that it can fix.  My guess is that there is a div by 0 or something (i.e. something set to 0 and not null) that needs to be corrected, and this can fix that.

    ~ Pat

  • KCTM
    Hi Dylan,

    Apart from what Pat suggested below in his earlier reply, could you try to follow the steps below and see if the crash still occurs when you run the DRC.

    1. Go to Setup and User Preferences
    2. At the categories section, expand the DRC and select General
    3. Check the box for the preference "drc_single_thread" and click Apply and then OK.
    4. Go to Display, Status and then update DRC

    Thanks
    KCTM
  • D Campbell
    Thank you Pat and KCTM. Running dbDoctor fixed it. I wasn't exactly sure of the purpose of dbDoctor until now.

    I did try KCTM's suggestion as well but it did not fix it although this time I do get a error dialog box but it's mostly generic.
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