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From: Kai-Martin Knaak <knaak AT iqo DOT uni-hannover DOT de>
Subject: Re: [geda-user] GTK3, Glade interface designer (router, auto?)
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2015 03:08:48 +0200
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Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:

> My biggest concern with what the toporouter could demonstrably do is
> that it is/was a game of all or nothing. You could not tell the router
> to restrict itself to some routes picked by me.
                             ^^^^^^
Sorry, this should have been 'nets'. 
Like in "Please Mr. Toporoute, can you kindly lay down some beautiful 
copper tracks for these highlighted nets"?                         


> And more troublesome, it was not able to play nice with tracks and vias
> already put in place by me.

Is this a restriction somehow implicit by the algorithm used at the bottom 
of the routing process?

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