On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 11:06:30PM +0200, Simon Huwyler wrote: > >I currently use freerouter in p&s mode exclusively, never route in kicad. > > what? Actually, I've always seen freerouter just as an autorouter > (and I don't like autorouters). I never had the idea to manually > route with it. Will try this eventually.
Tried freerouter once, got disgusted :D As a P&S router it's actually good (no idea on autorouting) but the blurry java 2D graphics and the general slugginess of java itself make it unworkable for me. I prefer using the pcbnew tracking tools, it doesn't have p&s but it's *way* more snappy in responding. Also it has no antialiasing and transparency (more visual contrast => more time before an headache:P) > I think I have seen that freerouter doesn't know layer constraints, > but you can tell net classes to be valid on certain layers. I > personally still think, my way is the better one. :-) But that's not > the point. Because also in this way, as I said, Kicad's constraint > handler should be aware of the different layers implement what > freerouter does. Probably there are limitations on how rules can be expressed in the specctra files; no idea on how much 'smart' it can be (independently da freeroute). Also different routers (still adhering to specctra) have different capability, I think that would be normal. -- Lorenzo Marcantonio Logos Srl _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
