Re: gEDA-user: New branch of PCB

[Anthony Blake <tonyb33@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Stephen Ecob
<silicon.on.inspiration@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:09 PM, timecop <timecop@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> With TopoR having a freeware version for 2 layers and up to 256 nets
>> (or some other fairly high for 'hobby' use limitation), there's not
>> really any point on bothering improving built in autorouter...
>> Does PCB have Specctra DSN/SES export/import? Just use that (or
>> implement if it doesn't) and then use any of the autorouters that
>> work.
>>
>> -tc
>
> TopoR does look very nice - a good target for our toporouter to try to better.
> The free version of TopoR is limited to 125 signals - much too small
> for my current board.
>

Keep in mind that most of the screenshots on their site required
extensive post-processing after "autorouting".. if you read the
captions, the main board they show off took 20 minutes of
"autorouting" and 40 minutes of fixing by hand. I've never actually
heard of anyone in industry using it.

-Anthony


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