Re: gEDA-user: New autorouter high effort mode

[Jan Martinek <honza@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/24/2010 12:11 AM, Stephen Ecob wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just pushed an update to my branch of PCB which provides a new
> autorouter high effort mode.
>
> What does it achieve?
> It wrings a few extra drops of goodness out of the autorouters.
> Typically it will route a few extra tracks.  Useful if the autorouter
> is almost doing the job, but leaving a handful of tracks unrouted.
> Very useful if you're finishing work for the day and your computer has
> nothing better to do all night.

Hi,

I am really happy to hear about it, thank you! I successfuly compiled 
your branch:

$ ./pcb --version
PCB version 1.99see

but the Settings menu is still the same as in the official version.

> What's the work flow ?
> 0. Back up your PCB.  WARNING: At the end of this work flow you will
> manually kill PCB (ctrl-C) without an opportunity to save.
> 1. Start PCB from a command shell, you'll need it to read status information
> 2. Set "Settings ->  Autorouter high effort"
> 3. Select at least one autorouter with "Settings ->  Disable 2008
> autorouter" and "Settings ->  Disable default autorouter"

I cannot find these settings. Did I miss some compile-time options?

regards,
Jan Martinek


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