With this you still get the missing dll error? If so that would indicate you either need the 2015 version for some reason, although from what I have read the 2017 version is supposed to be compatible or it isn’t complaining about the run time library. Can you post the exact error message you are getting with the dll name it is missing please? Its possible that it isn’t complaining about the runtime libaries but something else and we are chasing the wrong problem here.
Peter
Well this is a new one. Unfortunatly I don’t have an answer. I just built a development disk with Qt and Visual Studio which is using the 2017 Redistibutable. I just deleted the 2005 and 2013 versions to make sure it wasn’t using one of those, and Fritzing still starts fine for me using the 2017 Redistributables. You might try deleting all the Fritzing files (assuming you don’t have any sketches or parts that you want to keep) and see if a reinstall helps. As well as the files that loaded from the zip file there are two user directories that don’t get updated if the program is reinstalled (although that doesn’t usually cause this particular problem):
There are two user directories (with your parts and the parts database) which don’t get touched during an install (to not affect your sketchs during upgrades). On Windows they are in
c:\users\username\AppData\Fritzing\roaming\Fritzing (which is a hidden directory so you need to enable hidden directories in explorer) and
c:\Users\username\My Documents\Fritzing (where username is your windows id)
If you don’t have any parts or sketches you want to keep you can just delete those two directories and Fritzing will recreate them, or you can move them aside by renaming them if you wan to keep something in them.
If that works, the first launch of Fritzing will appear to hang (as it updates the parts database from github). Just wait until it completes, it will eventually tell you there are new parts available, as interrupting it is what causes you to need to delete the two files above usually.
Peter
A new one? But -I guess- it is exactly the same problems that others were having in the beginning of this discussion, and this is why I posted here!
I do not see any difference… Please have a look at the title of the discussion:
“Api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll Fix?”
I have already reinstalled the program without any success.
There is no problem with lode files since I have NEVER used it (in this computer) simply cause it never run!
I guess there is no hope…
It is a new one in that loading the runtime libs hasn’t fixed the problem. In all previous cases I know of (unless some people just gave up, which is possible) loading the runtime libraries has fixed this issue. With Windows 10 that often took a number of tries to get it right back in the days of one of the early patches, but eventually it fixed it. As I said I don’t have any more suggestions, it runs on lots of Windows machines (I have 5 of various flavors) on any of the supported OSes (I don’t believe it will run on XP because of runtime library issues but I haven’t tried either). Something appears to be odd about your machine is about as much as I can say.
Peter
Hi Folks
I’m a newbie with a few successful home-etched boards under my belt, but have a question about drilling with respect to copper placement.
For reasons I don’t understand, sometimes my top and bottom copper etching layers have wires terminated in ‘solid blobs’ and other times in ‘hollow blobs’. I can see any relevant properties of wires or components to change how they appear.
This makes it hard when drilling the holes. Drilling through ‘hollow blobs’ is easy, but through ‘solid blobs’ is hard and the drill moves around.
I’ve attached a picture of part of my board and the corresponding bottom copper layer.
Thanks experts!
Mark
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It looks like your problem is that you have extended the trace too far. It is possible (although somewhat difficult) to terminate the trace on the far edge of the pad rather than the near edge. If you do that the copper will extend across what should be the hole. If you zoom in on the pad you should see that. I usually have to delete the trace and rerun it (if I care, I rarely make boards but tend to do this when checking parts where I don’t care if the copper is messed up 
). I actually had to work at breaking this example, but experience tells me it is easy to do on on a multipin part. The top left pad in this is incorrect and will render as yours does without a hole in the middle.
Peter
Although I agree with what @Vanepp said it actually looks like an issue with the math used for the connection of curved traces. As soon as you curve a trace it connects past the center hole.
This subject has come up before for different reasons and manufacturing houses would like the paths to end in a solid blob and home etchers want the hollow blob. The only solution I can think of is to export as an SVG and then use something like Inkscape to do a difference of drill SVG from the Copper SVG.
I guess another solution would be to not use curved traces and only use 45 degree corners.
Hi. Yes, tests confirm, if I stick to 45 degree lines then it always terminates with hollow blobs.
Thanks!
More testing. It’s any curve which leads to the solid blob. Any angle straight line results in a hollow blob.
Thanks again everyone
Hello people,
I have a problem with my board. I want to get my board fabricated but when I uploaded my sketch on www.aisler.net, a pad (not really, it is a region where there is no solder mask and the copper is exposed) appears in the board viewer and in the stencil viewer. The pad is not present in the sketch. I viewed the board in different gerber viewers of different PCB manufacturers but the pad is still there. I have attached a few pictures.
I don’t know. I just designed the board as I have done before many times without any problems.
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I am running the latest version of fritzing on Windows 10.
Did you upload the Fritzing sketch to Aisler or did you export the Gerber files and then upload a zip of them? If you uploaded the sketch could you try exporting the gerbers and zipping them and uploading them to Aisler to see if it is a problem on there end when they try and convert it from a sketch. If it still appears could you upload your custom part here so we can have a look at the part to see if there is something in the custom part that is causing the problem.
Hello every one! i am workin with fritzing just a few days. I did advance good until now, but i am stucked with my ground fill. i did it and there are some line gaps in the ground fill. Someone knows how to have a clean placement or it is a bug?
Of course this picture is the final version for printing. In the Fritzing PCB it is barely visible, but still there.
Thank you!
Those are how Fritzing creates the ground fill. Frizing intersects lines with the other copper areas. I have never home etched a PCB from Fritzing but I can say they never show up in a professionally made boards I have made from Fritzing. I also believe they may not be there when you print them out on paper as I think they only show up because of how a monitor has a limited number of lines of resolution and it has to decide which pixels to display which SVG lines on and sometimes it shows them as having gaps but if you zoom in or out on the SVG those gaps move as they are not actually gaps.
I understand… but my concer is because the image was generated in PDF to print… and the gaps are there…
but i will give a try…
how do you print your bords? Do you use any othe program to this?
A PDF is also an SVG (Scalable vector graphic) and it could possibly still be a display issue unless you have printed it on plain paper already and it prints that way.
I haven’t etched a board in years now. I order my boards from Elecrow and get 5 100mm x 100mm professionally made boards for under $5 which is far less then it would cost to make a single PCB using toner transfer paper, etchant and copper clad board. Plus they are tested, have my choice of solder resist color, board thicknesses from 0.6 - 1.6mm and nice silkscreens all for that price.
There are many other places that have similar prices like Fusion PCB manufacturing (Seeedstudio) and Dirty PCBs but I prefer Elecrow myself. I’ve never had a bad board and if they find anything wrong with the solder resist or silkscreen during inspection they will remake them and send you all the PCBs. That means some times you will order 5 and get more just because the silkscreen is smudged or the color is off on some.
Many thanks for your attention, i will print and back to tell you the result. unfortunatly, i don´t have a easy contact company to do the boards…
You can use any of those companies. They all make boards for makers not just large corporations. They all accept PayPal and ship worldwide too. You just export your board as gerbers , zip them up and upload them to their site. They make the boards in about 1 week and send them off. If you are in a country that is part of the E-packet program you can select registered mail and email them and tell them you want E-packet shipping and get them in under two weeks for the cost of registered mail which for me in Canada takes up to 6 months so E-packet is a dream at under 2 weeks.
This is probably a very simple issue.
I’m trying to use the schematic frame on an 8.5 x 11 inch sheet, in landscape.
(width = 265mm, height=195mm)
(when I refer to portrait & landscape, this is the height & width of schematic frame, and with printer dialog set to portrait or landscape)
The Right side schematic frame line (and title box) is missing.(regardless of size). Even the ‘g’ Fritzing is cut off on right side.
When the schematic frame is the size of the title box, the right side is displayed.
In Portrait, the top, bottom, left, and right side lines of schematic frame are all visible.
Seems like there should be a portrait/landscape selection for Shape, there are paper sizes.
Any advice appreciated.
Update:
When I place a part or Text box in-line with the right edge, the right side line is displayed.
Is this a bug?
