Hi Brian and all, I admit to use autorouter to produce many fully functional and professional circuits (with Kicad obviously) . Sometimes I use manual routing for controlled impedance/noise/... tracks but generally I use it, for feasibilty and placement evaluation too. Why demonize autorouter? I believe it is really useful :D
Thanks to support "autorouting" tool, with or without the specific dialog box. Cheers, Luca *Luca Mini* Via Brione, 11/C 10040 Givoletto (TO) EMAIL: [email protected] Cell: +39 334 2459673 2018-05-23 17:44 GMT+02:00 jp charras <[email protected]>: > Le 23/05/2018 à 17:18, Brian Piccioni a écrit : > > For what it is worth, and despite knowing it is politically incorrect to > admit to using an autorouter, I have used Freeroute in the past and would > like to continue using it in the future. As much fun as manual routing is > (I treat it like a video game) sometimes you just want a board quickly. You > can always clean up dumb routes. > > > > Moreover, like Geographic reannotation, autorouting is a normal feature > for a professional PCB CAD tool and its absence is the sort of thing which > is noticed. > > > > I agree with Brian. > > And this is the exact reason I added a (poor) autorouter in Pcbnew. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Kicad-developers <kicad-developers-bounces+brian= > [email protected]> On Behalf Of Wayne Stambaugh > > Sent: May 23, 2018 9:17 AM > > To: Luca Mini <[email protected]> > > Cc: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] FreeRouting > > > > Hi Luca, > > > > Thanks for link. It appears that we may have been a bit premature on > the removal of the FreeRouting dialog. I just downloaded the latest source > code from the website below and the latest source file modification date is > 10/27/17 so it appears that our assumption that FreeRouting is no longer > being maintained is false. There are even instructions on how to use KiCad > with FreeRouting[1] which shows the removed dialog. Of course, we could > ping the FreeRouting folks to update their website to use the KiCad export > and import features. Would someone please check on the user forum and see > if we are going to get a lot of backlash for removing this? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Wayne > > > > [1]: https://freerouting.org/freerouting/using-with-kicad > > > > On 5/23/2018 8:51 AM, Luca Mini wrote: > >> Hi Wayne, > >> I use freerouting and this link seems to be active on the "Freerouting" > >> argument. > >> > >> https://freerouting.org > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Luca > >> > >> > >> *Luca Mini* > >> Via Brione, 11/C > >> 10040 Givoletto (TO) > >> EMAIL: [email protected] > >> <mailto:[email protected]> > >> Cell: +39 334 2459673 > >> > >> 2018-05-21 18:54 GMT+02:00 Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected] > >> <mailto:[email protected]>>: > >> > >> Hey JP, > >> > >> On 5/21/2018 12:27 PM, jp charras wrote: > >> > Le 21/05/2018 à 18:09, Seth Hillbrand a écrit : > >> >> Hi Wayne- > >> >> > >> >> In https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1567790 > >> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1567790> you mentioned that we > >> won't be supporting FreeRouting for > >> >> v5. Should we remove this menu item/icon from the menus? > >> >> > >> >> -S > >> >> > >> > > >> > Hi Seth, > >> > > >> > Are you talking about .dsn and .ses files export import, or the > >> menu to call FreeRoute from Pcbnew? > >> > > >> > This is really not the same thing. > >> > Many EDA tools support .dsn and .ses files export import (and this > >> import/export feature does not > >> > create issues). > >> > > >> > >> I'm OK with removing the FreeRouting dialog and menu entry. I > don't see > >> any compelling reason to keep it since we already have support for > >> Specctra dsn export and Specctra session import for users who wish > to > >> continue using it. Is FreeRouting even supported any more? I > thought > >> it hasn't been maintained for quite some time. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> > >> Wayne > > -- > Jean-Pierre CHARRAS > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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