On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:51 AM, veegee wrote: > On 2013-05-24 1:38 AM, William "Chops" Westfield wrote: >> I'm pretty sure that the 15x20 inch, 14-layer boards with a couple >> dozen 144pin ICs, that they make back where I used to work, are >> mostly autorouted. > > I remember mentioning autorouters somewhere, some time ago, and the > suggestion was frowned upon. Quite intensely. I was under the impression > after that, that complicated stuff should be manually routed. But I'm > glad to hear that it isn't the case. With some of the cases, with the constraints set, the autorouter would not do the best job. With Orcad this was a case. Single layer boards were the worst hit. --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .