Homebrew PCBs

I use DipTrace. I really like it a lot for both schematic capture and
routing. A couple of things took a little getting used to or searching
to find but overall it's pretty straight forward and all of the
packages work very well. It's really an excellent product. I really
like hoe well the copper pours work.

I hand place the components and then run the Auto-Router. If I don't
like it, I rip it all up, change the settings, and run it again. When
I like what I see, I then rip up the few traces I don't like, hand
push the others, and then route by hand the few remaining traces.
There are usually just a few to deal with like this on each board.

- phil

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Dennis Waggoner" <wagelec@...>
wrote:
>
>    Some one ask me what I use to route my pcbs. I use Eagle but I hand
> route all of my traces.
> 
> Ive found that I can logically route my traces manually much better
> than autorouting them. I takes a lot more time but there are much less
> via's to contend with by placing manually.
>
> Dennis Waggoner
>