AVR-Chat

--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, David VanHorn <dvanhorn@c...> wrote:
> At 08:29 PM 7/6/2004 +0200, Jesper Hansen wrote:
> 
> >Autoroute is not magic !
> >You will always be able to do a better fit manually.
> >
> >I don't think ANY autorouter can do better than an
> >experienced person routing manually.
> >
> >Autoroute only, should really only be used on non-critical
> >boards.
> 
> I've never seen an autorouter that actually worked, on real world 
boards.

I use autorouter to see the congestion on the board and move parts to 
allow the traces to fit logically.

I use autorouter to verify that all the traces CAN be made.

Then,  I hand route for final boards.  The autorouter in WinQCad is 
fast, and works  well, but leaves ugly lines.

Dave