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From: Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk AT familieknaak DOT de>
Subject: Re: [geda-user] GTK3, Glade interface designer (router, auto?)
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2015 04:39:46 +0200
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Stefan Salewski wrote:

> The toporouter as described in in the PhD thesis of Tal Dayan from
> 1997 assumes that there is an empty area for routing, which is only
> restricted by the size of pads and pins. So each already existing
> trace is a problem.

I suspected so. So this is worse than just a not yet coded feature. 
Unfortunately, doing some portions in advance manually is key to deal 
with many special cases. Examples:

* Make sure, there are proper high current highways

* Do length compensated thin wires for critical timing

* Put down these large heat dissipating copper areas

* Let high voltage lines keep an extra distance to everything else

* Related: Make sure, no track crosses the boundary of the enclosure

Most of my boards have at least one of these cases.

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