Op 16-May-13 5:29 AM, veegee schreef:
> Serious question. In what professional (or not) setting would one
> seriously use an autorouter for designing PCBs?
>
> No sarcasm intended. I have tried a few but have always found that it's
> best done manually.

For what value of best? When I have a fixed idea about the PCB size and=20
the components on them, and the autorouter (I use eagle) can connect=20
them, then why not use the result? I certainly can't do it faster!

In some sense this is the same discussion as compiler versus hand-coded=20
assembly. I can write better assembly than the compiler can, but it will=20
take me a very long time. In nearly all cases that is not economical.

Wouter
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