Homebrew PCBs

"Dennis Waggoner" <wagelec@...> writes:
> I use Eagle but I hand route all of my traces.

I don't hand route them *all* but what I do is run the autorouter once
in a while to see how "clean" my layout is, and if there are any key
traces that I should hand-route first because they'll otherwise go all
over the place.  Sometimes I can get close enough to let the
autorouter do the rest.

> I found that by varying the routing grid by as little as .1

Does eagle still use a gridded autorouter?  PCB switched to gridless a
while back, otherwise it's difficult to pick the right grid with a
mixture of metric and english pitch SMT parts.