Kyle, The autorouter is pretty important on any of the boards with a very high pin count. I manually lay out all of my small boards, but it would take a very long time to do that, for complex boards.
I generally prefer to let the autorouter run, and then make my own adjustments to reduce vias. - Alex On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Kyle Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 1:14 PM, yoda <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Has it been decided what we are going to do about the lack of routing >> software because of the issue with freerouting.net? I can go either way (I >> have squirreled away the java code - though it might make people nervous >> with the legal implications) - DipTrace does not look too bad if we can use >> the non profit version of the software. >> >> I ask because I am going to start doing some prototyping and don't want to >> have to enter the schematics twice >> >> Thanks >> >> Dave > > > CERN has taken on a good chunk of KiCad maintenance lately, and has added > many great features. I highly recommend sticking with KiCad and see how it > grows. > > I am personally confused by the need for an autorouter. Routing by hand > tends to take less time than the autorouter and offers much better results > in terms of via count, and address/data lines and other more sensitive > traces (when operating at higher speeds) can be matched to each other. For a > 4-layer board with BGAs and other high density boards, I can see why some > may want an autorouter. But even for a 486, this seems overkill. > > Kyle > > -- > 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.
