Op 5-3-2018 om 18:49 schreef Wayne Stambaugh: > All kidding aside, I was told by a very highly skilled board designer > not to waste our time with auto-routers because no one actually uses > them except for the simplest designs with lots of free board space and > few or no routing restrictions. This is someone who uses Altium in his > day job and has laid out far more boards than I have. I'm guessing > auto-routers appeal to hobbyists rather than professionals. I guess this begs the question, who is kicad targeting? Are we trying to serve the professionals or also be a tool for the less skilled (comparative) masses.
> There are far more useful features to add to KiCad > than auto-routing. If we ever get to the point we are sitting around > twiddling our thumbs, then we should work on an auto-router. I absolutely agree, but after reading this article https://wp.josh.com/2017/10/23/adventures-in-autorouting/, I did find myself wondering what a Google Summer of Code Student (with some opencl/machine learning/other buzzword skills) might be able to do with the auto-router. Robbert _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp