I've used the Autorouter in Eagle with much success.  Despite what my friend
Bob Ammerman says, I like the autorouter  Usually with about 3-4 tries,
rearrangeing components in between, I can get it to 99%, then I route the
rest by hand.  Still less time than banging it out by hand.  Also fun to
watch ;-)

Yes, your original layout probably WAS better than the autorouter.  You can
always do a better job manually, given enough time, whether you are baking a
loaf of bread, driving your car (manual vs stickshift) or routing a board.
The issue is, whether your clients are PAYING you for all that extra work or
not.  Who has time to rout boards by hand?

-- Lawrence Lile

Gotta go, outta time.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Baker" <mbaker@OPTIMEINC.COM>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: [EE]: EAGLE question.


> Thank you for the kind reply. I actually got smart enough to figure out
> that it was necessary to create a model. Drawing a circle wasn't as easy
as
> one would hope :> but I now have a set of panel meters with labels and
> values. The next question is about the autorouter....I think my original
> layout was better than the autorouters'. Have you any experience with the
> Autorouter and it's parameters? I do not have a manual, just the online
> help . I inherited a machine with eagle installed...the online manuals are
> not as specifically helpful as one might wish.... sigh...
>
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Martin
>
> At 05:50 PM 7/2/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >Martin:
> >
> >I've been using the Eagle software for a couple of years - it's certainly
> >not the best CAD package out there, but for the price, it's fine.
> >
> >I don't recall if the library contains any panel meters or not.  However,
if
> >you have anything other than the demo version, you can create/draw your
own
> >and save them as parts in a library.  The manual has the details on how
to
> >do it.
> >
> >Dennis
>
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