Hi Dave, I agree with you, I didn't like how the autorouter turned my board into swiss cheese. It put in 800 via's where after I was done redoing it all, I was down to 350 vias.
But it took a long time... about 70 hours to route 40 chips on an S-100 board. Josh. > Subject: Re: [N8VEM-S100:4354] FreeRouter No longer available. Long term > plans for Board layouts > From: [email protected] > Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 14:48:29 -0400 > To: [email protected] > > On Jun 22, 2014, at 6:41 PM, monahanz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It looks like the http://www.freerouting.net/ web site for FreeRouter is no > > longer available! > > > > This leaves us with a big problem making PC boards with KiCad. > > (Fortunately I happen to have the PC version here for my own use), but it > > opens up a general question as to how we do PC boards (S100 and others) in > > the future. > > I've had no problem manually routing boards in KiCAD, and my boards are > generally somewhat more complex than S100 boards. I don't really believe in > autorouters, though, so take my preferences with a grain of salt. > > > - Dave > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "N8VEM-S100" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "N8VEM-S100" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
