>I had sort of not bothered with this, since it did not have an autorouter.

Is the autorouter that important?

It seems to me that for the price you are prepared to invest this is the
first thing that will need to be dispensed with. Perhaps this is just my
lack of experience with an autorouter showing, but I wonder if it really
does make life that much easier than moving things around and having the
rubber band lines show the connections.

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