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This alongside the question re: DXF really reveals the inexperience of the question asker. My experience with the Altium auto-router (which is pretty good, as
by petsfed 3y ago
This alongside the question re: DXF really reveals the inexperience of the question asker.
My experience with the Altium auto-router (which is pretty good, as these things go) was that it took quite a bit more time to setup and tune than to just bite the bullet and manually route the board. Eagle's auto-router was easier to use, but it was also attached to Eagle.
At the end of the day, the difference between getting an autorouter to the point that it can autoroute a simple 2-layer board with lots of through hole parts, getting it to the point that its useful to the average professional, is monstrous. There's so much more to routing that just widths and clearances. It will probably someday be the case that most PCBs are laid out and routed entirely by computers. But for now, there's too much subtlety in PCB design. I'd lose my mind if I had AI-designed boards failing QC because of tombstoning, for instance. I'm not sure that anyone is trying to simulate board heating in detail enough to predict its occurrence, let alone evaluate solutions prior to board fab. And yet, the solution is pretty easy once you see that its happening in the first place.