Homebrew PCBs

On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 12:48:53 +0200 (CEST), Gunnar Lestander 
<gunnar@...> wrote:

> Hi Stefan
>
> When I routed boards at work a couple of years ago I often made 2-layer
> boards with the classic vertical traces at one side and horizontal at
> the other.
>
> I used to start routing the Power and Gnd , then I routed important
> signals manually .
>
> Then I locked that traces and used the autorouter for the remaining.
>
> After that came the part when you fix the traces not solved and final
> touch up.
>
> Last we often placed a Gnd area to fill up all unused areas of the
> board.
>
>
> // Gunnar Lestander , SM4VLM
>

I know that approach, but it leads to a lot of vias, which i don't want to 
solder.
Also it seems to work better with throughhole and less good with hybrid 
boards.

thanks

ST