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Subject: Re: [geda-user] GTK3, Glade interface designer (router, auto?)
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On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 11:28 AM, John Griessen <john AT ecosensory DOT com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Just to point out that the above quote is from Kai-Martin Knaak not me


>
> 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.



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