Tomaz Solc wrote:
In which cases do you use the built-in autorouter?
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turned out the autorouter failed to route about a third of all nets
and in the end I had to route it by hand.
There is a way to guide the autorouter onto layers by making unwanted ones
invisible, then
DJ Delorie wrote:
I'm curious. In which cases do you use the built-in autorouter?
When the layout is a jumbled tangle of traces and there's plenty of
room. Or for boards so simple that there's little chance of it
screwing up.
I used auto-routing on my most recent project with pretty good su
> I'm curious. In which cases do you use the built-in autorouter?
When the layout is a jumbled tangle of traces and there's plenty of
room. Or for boards so simple that there's little chance of it
screwing up.
The m3a board, for example, was 100% hand routed, because it's mostly
busses, which c
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> I use the built-in one, when I use it at all. Mostly I hand-route.
I'm curious. In which cases do you use the built-in autorouter?
Recently I was trying to use it to make a single-layer PCB for a
keyboard with 54 keys - one of the most simple
On Monday 27 November 2006 12:18, DJ Delorie wrote:
> Right, but the user should be able to "throw money" at a
> problem if that's what they need, either spending money to
> purchase a commercial autorouter, or paying someone to write
> a free one. Thus, it would be good to be able to say "PCB
> s
> but don't fall for the trap of a zero-cost restricted proprietary
> one. Such things are a serious threat to the existence of truly
> free software.
Right, but the user should be able to "throw money" at a problem if
that's what they need, either spending money to purchase a commercial
autorou
On Monday 27 November 2006 11:59, DJ Delorie wrote:
> Personally, I'd rather have a GPL'd autorouter, but OTOH
> giving the user the option to license a much more powerful
> one is good too.
but don't fall for the trap of a zero-cost restricted
proprietary one. Such things are a serious threat
> What solution are geda/pcb users using for autorouting?
I use the built-in one, when I use it at all. Mostly I hand-route.
> I've had some conversations with folks at http://www.konekt.com and
> they asked if there would be interest from pcb users in a commercial
> autorouter? It looks like
What solution are geda/pcb users using for autorouting? I've had some
conversations with folks at http://www.konekt.com and they asked if
there would be interest from pcb users in a commercial autorouter? It
looks like they use the DSN format (whatever that is) so a PCB to DSN
translator would b
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