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Subject: Re: [geda-user] GTK3, Glade interface designer (router, auto?)
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On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Stefan Salewski <mail AT ssalewski DOT de> wrote:
> On Sun, 2015-10-04 at 18:38 -0800, Britton Kerin
> (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>
>> >
>>
>> I think pcb has defaults for these, and saves them in each file also
>> as
>> overrides.  So they could be gotten from an existing pcb file.  Or is
>> making the router implement different parameters the hard part?
>>
>
> No, it is not hard. But at least for older gschem/gnetlist versions it
> was not possible to transfer net attributes like "power" or "10mil"
> direct to PCB. The example picture on my page already has traces of two
> different widths, I think I added them manually to the netlist file --
> can not really remember.
>
> The real hard part is, that people really do not like autorouters
> generally, and most really do not like curved traces. Anthony already
> wrote that most people told him that. My feeling is, that this is very
> true in the hobby area, and also for small companies doing simple
> boards. And that would be the target audience for an open source router,
> at least at the beginning. They seem to like push and shove much better.
> So I have no real hope that more than about five people would use the
> router, even if it would work fine. But I think I will continue working
> on the router at some time again, it is not very difficult and it is
> much fun.
>
> [...]

To be honest I was surprised when I threw that developer excitement
thread out there that people wanted back annotation while push and
shove routing did not even get a mention.




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