Steve Baldwin wrote:
> That sounds like SPECCTRA's dynamic costing and from the website,
> ELECTRA looks to have SPECCTRA genes. I saw somewhere that it was
> formed by ex Cooper & Chyan folks. If that is the case, I think you've 
> struck
> gold (or will eventually become gold).
>
> SPECCTRA is simply in a class of its' own. It works straight out of the 
> box,
> or if you want to spend some time with the DO file scripting language, you
> can give it information about the board and get results that are hard to
> distinguish from manually routed boards.

That's funny, I think you're absolutely right. ELECTRA also has DO files. Is 
there a way to make SPECCTRA work with Eagle? How expensive is it?

Sometimes ELECTRA exhibits strange behavior, for example it would put a via 
a few mils from a pad, instead of routing the trace to the pad. Or it would 
go in a U-shaped path instead of a straight line. I haven't played with the 
settings much, nor have I tried to create a DO file, so I don't know if that 
would help.

Vitaliy 

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