Vitaliy wrote:
> We all know that Eagle's autorouter cannot be relied upon to do a
> good job, and the results it produces require manual tweaking.

No, we don't all "know" this.  I've found the Eagle autorouter to be a very
useful tool.  It is one part of the overall routing process.  You can't just
throw a board at it and forget it, but then again you can't do that with any
other autorouter either.  As with any complicated tool, you have to take the
time to learn it properly and tweak the details for what you are trying to
do.  Once you've done that with the Eagle autorouter you can get very decent
results.

If you don't want to take the time to read the manual, several times,
understand what each of the settings do, get experience with them, learn how
to set it up for different situations, and instead just use the defaults
then you're right, the Eagle autorouter "doesn't work".  However I doubt you
will find one that does under those conditions.  Perhaps there are some that
are more forgiving of lazy or incompetent users, but in the end you're not
likely to get professional results without effort no matter what tool you
use.

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