--- In [email protected], "josh_eeg" <josh...@...> wrote: > > Has anyone used the autorouters in GEDA to route their kicad design? > > I am looking to use the autorouters as a sugjestion to the way I want to > route the board and to acsept some more trivial routing. > > The one that interested me the most was the Topological Autorouter > > Topological Autorouter > http://www.wand.net.nz/~amb33/toporouter/ > > I emailed the author aparently the files are in GEDA but like other geda > things and unlike kicad not quite documented. If anyone can show how to route > my board using this I think that would be a great trial. >
Hi! I like the idea of the gEDA and/or Topological autorouter integration into KiCAD. Another possibility exists as well; the MUCS-PCB autorouter is GPL and could be integrated into KiCAD directly. It is license compatible and may be an improvement over the existing KiCAD autorouter. http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/apt/projects/tools/mucs-pcb/ Although FreeRouting.net works great, it is not open source and I get the impression from its author he has moved on to other projects and is no longer doing major development on the FreeRouting.net autorouter. I believe it would be a wise contingency for KiCAD developers to consider the alternatives to FreeRouting.net if it were to disappear suddenly some day. It doesn't hurt to be prepared. Is there a script to convert KiCAD board files to/from MUCS-PCB? Thanks and have a nice day! Andrew Lynch
