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----- Original Message -----
From: David McNab
To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 8:56 PM
Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Autorouting and auto-placement


Hi,

I've been using Eagle for my PCBs, mainly on the strengths of its
above-average user interface, the good component libraries (made better
by user contributions), but especially its autorouter.

The autorouter is a pain, but gets the job done. Even if sometimes I
need to tweak some of the parameters, and manually move traces around a
bit after the job's done.

For me, the autorouter is a $deity$-send. I just don't have the patience
to lay out traces manually.

Some questions here:
- do people here consider it lame to use autorouting?
- are there any other free PCB design progs that have autorouting?
- can eagle (or any other free progs) do auto-placement?
- is Eagle the best of the free PCB design progs?

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I sometimes use the Pulsonix autorouter, it is one of the better ones. I
always route ground, power and other critical nets manually, of course. I
don't bother with auto-placement.

Leon
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