Easy Router was the original router supplied as part of the EasyPC installation .... and was not very good. I believe that Trace Router is its replacement and meant to be better. However none of these will be anything compared to Prorouter or Spectra.
However ... a word of warning .... be careful letting a router loose on your layout, best to manually route always.
Thanks Iain. So I don't have either of the "good" ones.
I'm not a fan of autorouters, but sometimes when things get tight I will let the autorouter add one trace, just to see if it is possible to route it at all.
Routers bug me. I admit it. When I went looking for a PCB package last year the first thing I looked for was good router options. Unfortunately no one anywhere seems to have done any comparisons. At least I couldn't find any.
I have the EPC router. I'm not a slave to routers but some are significantly better than others. This one is adequate for my current use and I use it by letting it run a few times - fiddling with the results each time and then manually changing things that either don't work or I don't like.
Simply rotating a component or aligning it within or across an area that didn't route last time can make a big difference to results. It isn't a patch on some I found but I dont need better right now - but I'm on the edge.
I think it's a tool like any other but totally indispensable when working with complex boards. And it's suprising how fast a board can get complex.
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Which Autorouter?
Posted - 27 Apr 2011 : 15:02:22
