Re: gEDA-user: PCB autorouter

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>]

On Apr 11, 2004, at 3:56 PM, harry eaton wrote:
> I have made several improvements to it recently (in the CVS tree, no
> snapshot yet) including a few bug
> fixes. It still has some quirks, but works pretty well.
  Ahh, ok.  The one I'm using is from mid-February.  I'm pulling down 
the current sources now and will give it a shot.  Thanks!

>   Surprisingly, it's
> usually faster and better with fewer layers (it will route on any layer
> that's visible). If you have some specific examples of bad output, 
> please
> send it my way.
  Ok.  what I experienced wasn't *incorrect* output in the strictest 
sense, just that it was pretty messy.  (I mean no offense by this...I 
think your work is excellent)

> DJ wrote the trace-optimizers in order to "clean up" many things that 
> the
> auto-router leaves behind.
  Yes I noticed that stuff.  Is there some reason why those things 
aren't done automatically during the route, or is that the future plan?

       -Dave

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