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Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2015 10:28:13 -0500
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On 10/05/2015 08:03 PM, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> My prophecy: If you can fix the two issues I mentioned above, people will
>>start to test and love your toporouter. And soon curvy shaped tracks will
>>be hallmark of boards done with geda.


Yep, I think they will catch on and be written about as "having a cool retro hand-done look
like the circuitry in my 70's linear stereo amp by Marantz, or my little KLH tuner from the 60's
or a card from my Tektronix scope, or..."

And not to mention that with such curvy traces, an opportunity to relocate
some footprints for space savings will be obvious sometimes.  Then doing the
relocation will not get you in a jam as fast as Manhattan or with 45's layout,
so you could iterate the several times with very little incremental effort
and become super productive at space and money saving layout!

What if the auto-routed arcs and lines could stretch with a drag of a footprint?
That would be super also for iteratively rearranging footprints more tightly,
then run a partial reroute to clean up areas where traces needed deleting.
It could all lead to super productivity that would attract more users/developers
and even start a community where "us experts"  could get gigs adding to the code for
specific user wants.