> This brings up the question: how reliable is the auto-router anyway? Is > it a reasonable idea to use it for non-critical projects - providing, of > course, a person does a careful visual inspection of the traces?
I haven't seen an auto-router yet where you don't have to carefully visually inspect the traces. In my experience, for serious boards it's so hard to direct the router to do what you want (net priorities etc) that it's less effort to route it yourself. But maybe that's because I've never paid enough for a design software. >From my limited experience, this one does about what I would expect (apart from the things I mentioned before) - there are some odd bits of track left to delete, the odd crazy decision, some unnecessary vias here and there, etc. If the board's not too big it's not too hard to tidy it up. And the DRC check and the 'o' key should tell you if anything's gone seriously wrong (which is how I noticed the clearances problem). Peter. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
