If I ever decide to leap into the trace optimizer again, I'll add the
one optimization I didn't do the first time around: curves. One of
the layout tools we had at Data General would "pull" all the traces as
tight as the design rules allowed, so you'd see these traces swooping
around the pads and curving all over the place. Almost no outside
corners and very few traces ran at perfect 90s.
Of course, once you do that you're pretty much done editing the board
;-)
Amazing, that would be mega cool.
Curves by an autorouter are like rules in a knife fight ;-)
Yes, I agree that this would be very cool. If it does get
implemented in pcb though, I would suggest that there should be a way
to turn it off in case it isn't wanted for a particular type of layout.