In the native autorouter, are the only options to 1) autoroute one net
or pad at a time or 2) global autoroute all nets at once either for
one module or all modules?  Is it possible to specify a set of nets to
autoroute or select a set of nets and autoroute all nets except for
those?  I am designing a board right now and am trying to autoroute
all nets except for two, then go back and route those two manually.  I
could autoroute all nets then go back and reroute those two, of
course, but I want the autorouter to find 'optimum' paths without
those two nets getting in the way.  I'm actually going to connect
those two nets to filled zones instead of laying down explicit paths
for them.  I'm hoping the autorouter can find nice paths for all nets
except those two, maybe I'll manually tweak the locations after it is
finished, then I'll just lay down two big filled zones and attach them
to the two unconnected nets to connect all of the rest of the pins on
those nets.  I could autoroute each net one by one, leaving the last
two for the end, but I have a large number of nets and the two I want
to leave disconnected connect to almost every module.  Should I use
freerouter instead?  I haven't tried it yet, perhaps it has more of
these sorts of options.  Kicad is fantastic by the way, I'm switching
all of my lab projects from Eagle to Kicad and am very happy with the
change.  I would choose an open source solution over proprietary even
if the open source is not as good, but in this case I think it is
better, nice work!

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