--- In [email protected], [email protected] wrote: >
> > CHOICES AND RESULTS > - Never use it, 14 votes, 37.84% > - To initially throw the components across the surface roughly grouped on the basis of the netlist, 15 votes, 40.54% > - To try and find the exact optimal placement of individual compnents, 8 votes, 21.62% > - Other, 0 votes, 0.00% > Now I get to reveal **why** I set this poll. When I tried using the autoplace function, I found it to be very slow, but precise, as it iterates througth each component trying to find an optimum placement. I would have preferred that it was much quicker rather than being so precise, so I set the poll to see what other people thought. The results are fairly clear, people wanting precise autoplace functions are few, half that of the people who would like autoplace to throw component roughly into position. BTW, It may be that some of the people who "never use it" may not use it because they have never used a package that does a quick and rough autoplace. However, as a conclusion, I would say that whilst there are users who appreciate KiCAD's precise autoplacer, there would seem to be ample demand for a quick placer algorithm as well.
