On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 18:32 +0100, myken wrote: > Hello All, > > I was just wondering, is there any documentation on how the autorouter > of PCB is implemented? Restrictions, strategy, information used, hooks, > alternatives, etc. > Is there an active development in that area? > > Just to explain: I am using gEDA/PCB professionally but I do the routing > by hand because I can't get a grip on the autorouter functionality. > Sometimes I have simple, non critical boards I just want the autorouter > to find a solution but most of the time I don't want to use the solution > the autorouter presents to me because it makes me look bad, > unprofessionally (this is a nice way of saying the autorouter makes a > mess of things, but then again maybe I am doing something wrong). > > No offence ment to anyone, I just try to understand the autorouter. > > Best Regards, Robert. >
For latest PCB snapshot 20091103 the "old" autorouter is strongly improved and documented in user manual. The new topological autorouter is available too, if compiled with --enable-toporouter option. You can call it from command entry with :toporouter(). There is not much documentation for it, and it may fail, see http://www.wand.net.nz/~amb33/toporouter/ _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user