I found that it just works. It appears to export all the necessary footprints (including custom ones I developed) so nothing else was required.
I noticed it appears to be single-threaded as only once CPU core of my quad-core processor was actually being utilized. Are any of the autorouters multi-threaded to take advantage of the modern multi-core CPUs?? While we're on the topic of external, auto-routers, has anyone seen this one: http://www.wand.net.nz/~amb33/toporouter/ It appears to use some "new"(??) methodology called "Rubberband based topological routing" instead of the traditional "geometric sequential maze routing". Something I noticed was that it created flowing traces as opposed to traces with hard corners. It appears to have been developed to work primarily with PCB. Has anyone used this or knows how well it actually works? Thanks, Greg ________________________________ From: mmabshaffer <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:05:57 AM Subject: [kicad-users] Export to Spectra DSN functionality Today I am trying to understand the Spectra DSN Export function. 1. Is there a place I should look to read about this? I didn't find much in the Help and FAQ. 2. Why is it in PCBNew instead of EESchema? 3. Are the KiCad footprints exported or must the target router have matching footprints. Thanks, Bob ------------------------------------ Please read the Kicad FAQ in the group files section before posting your question. Please post your bug reports here. They will be picked up by the creator of Kicad. Please visit http://www.kicadlib.org for details of how to contribute your symbols/modules to the kicad library. For building Kicad from source and other development questions visit the kicad-devel group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-develYahoo! Groups Links
