Re: gEDA-user: find elements in PCB...

[Ales Hvezda <ahvezda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Delivery-Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 10:17:26 -0400
From: Bob Paddock <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

On Saturday 16 October 2004 09:32 am, DJ Delorie wrote:
> I usually start out by just grabbing whatever PCB picks from the
> corner and spreading them out around the board, *then* worrying about
> which parts go where.
>
> Have you tried autoplace?

I did on a board last week.  For the life of me I could not figure out why
it placed the parts the way it did.

What is autoplace actually doing, and how?

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