On Tuesday 13 April 2004 06:54 am, Alan B. Pearce scribbled:
> >I had sort of not bothered with this, since it did not have an autorou=
ter.
>
> Is the autorouter that important?

With ~2000 pins, yes it is.


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

A lot of the programs out there have features I don't need, and I'd be wi=
lling=20
to sacrifice those first ... like 4+ layer boards, SPICE/simulation, EMC=20
analysis, etc.  All I need is Eagle lite (freeware version), but with a=20
larger board area.

It's out there, and I'll find it .... :-)

Cheers,
-Neil.

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