> How does the quality of autorouters from higher-priced vendors like Altium
> compare to Eagle? What about the learning curve?

I have used autorouters from Eagle, PADS, Altium, and SPECCTRA. Eagle is
not in the same league as the others. Personally I prefer SPECCTRA but it
has a higher learning curve. However none of the three require much
interaction to get good results, it's only when you want to push it that
you need to do much study.

Altium as a package is the most integrated (like Eagle) of the bunch, but
I don't like it. Some of the bugs that were in Protel in 1996 are still
there. But SPECCTRA autorouter by itself will cost as much as the full
Altium package, and PADS is expensive too.

Cheerful regards,

Bob


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