Bob Blick wrote:
>> > After seeing Eagle take half an hour to do a poorer job of routing than
>> > 15 seconds in SPECCTRA, I have to agree, the software has something to
>> > do with it :)
>
>> Is SPECCTRA compatible with Eagle?
>
> I don't use Eagle but I see there is an Eagle-SPECCTRA ULP. Also
> freerouting.net seems to have an Eagle translator for their online
> router.

Looks interesting! Do you know how well it works?


Their router is not SPECCTRA but it uses the SPECCTRA interface
> by default. SPECCTRA was the only product from Cooper and Chyan after
> they left Mentor Graphics so there are translators to-from almost
> anything. Now they got gobbled up by Cadence. It's hard to keep track of
> all the mergers and acquisitions.

How much does it cost? For some reason, it is not part of Cadence's product 
list:

http://www.cadence.com/products/Pages/all_products.aspx

BTW, re: ELECTRA:

"The router fits together with FreePCB, Kicad, CadSoft-Eagle and all host 
PCB design software containing an interface to the Specctra or Electra 
autorouter."

This makes it sound like the interfaces (not just the names) are similar.

FWIW, I tried ELECTRA, it works better (and many times faster!) than EAGLE's 
autorouter, but I still wasn't satisfied with the results. We route all of 
our boards by hand.

Best regards,

Vitaliy Maksimov
ScanTool.net, LLC
http://www.scantool.net 

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