[sdiy] Eagle

[Jim Palmer]

why is this?
i hear similar opinions a lot, but always without detail about why it's bad.
it seems to amount to it not looking nice...

i really think the majority of pcbs in the world are autorouted.
i've had good luck with the autorouter.  i understand some signals need
special treatment, but one can manually take care of these.
and doing a little manual cleanup after autorouting is a ton easier than
manually routing a complicated layout.

but still, i'd like to hear any feedback about why it's so bad...

> As for autorouting - UUUGGHHH!!!  I avoid autorouters like the  plague. 
> In the past I've had the pleasure of working with skilled  PCB layout 
> people and they never,ever use autorouters.  The closest  they come is 
> push-n-shove.  Even on large multilayer boards  autorouters have a knack 
> of mucking things up.
>
> Neil