X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com From: Kai-Martin Knaak Subject: Re: [geda-user] The state of gEDA/gaf (Was gEDA/PCBs diversity, Was: Pin hole size) Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 20:15:31 +0100 Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <2CB304B5-9587-4734-84E4-49F464744D11 AT noqsi DOT com> <6BF2E986-51EB-41E9-A4AD-8071CD00B1A1 AT jump-ing DOT de> <834283D4-0891-486E-A981-2FF20B32C615 AT noqsi DOT com> <54CAA7EE-7638-4B89-8197-111D0493F859 AT noqsi DOT com> <508CE947 DOT 4050408 AT xs4all DOT nl> <508D302D DOT 1030105 AT jump-ing DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT ger DOT gmane DOT org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: a89-182-142-44.net-htp.de User-Agent: KNode/4.4.11 Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Markus Hitter wrote: >> 8. >> Please do fix the gem called toporouter !!! > > How similar is this one to using pcb's menu -> connects -> optimize > routed tracks -> global puller after doing traditional autorouting? > It differs quite a bit. The toporouter comes up with solutions, the grid based would never come close. Unfortunately, the website, where the GSoC student presented his results went to digital nirvana. They compared the output of the toporouter with the autorouter. Here is a screenshot of a board that was done with the toporouter: http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/4727511688/ ---<)kaimartin(>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak