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Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:05:55 -0400
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire AT neurotica DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Trace width - best practices?
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On 10/24/2012 02:42 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
>> However, I can offer my students to do some improvements to gEDA as
>> 	OK, I will try to route the wide paths manually, but I am probably
>> no match for the pcb autorouter :-)
> 
> You'd be surprized - I typically do *not* use the autorouter because I
> can do a better job (although not nearly a *faster* job, assuming the
> autorouter can complete the task at all)

  Same here; I do all my boards by hand.  I'm not knocking the
autorouter, but I do take a bit of "artistic pride" in my PCB layouts.
Electrical requirements come first of course, but people look at my
boards and say "wow, that's pretty!"

             -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA