hi brock, thanks for the suggestion on doing an undo instead of an unroute. sounds like a good one.
miker ******************* I don't think you should do an Un-route after a failed autorouter pass. An Undo will remove all the junk and take you back to where you started. I have only successfully autorouted two boards so I am certainly not an expert with it, but I have tried to run it on the last 20 or so boards I have done and one observation I have made is that it appears to work much better when the possible routing paths are constrained. "Plenty of room" seems to cause problems, perhaps too many possible routing paths? Someone recently mentioned that the autorouter appears to work better on complex designs. I suspect this is due to inherent routing constraints. I have seen the endless loop scenario too where the main toolbar goes gray and flickers endlessly but I could not figure out what was causing it. I suspected it was a design rule violation caused by the autorouter, then the error is detected, removed and re-attempted, but I could not pin it down. Brock Russell * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
