Le 23/05/2018 à 17:18, Brian Piccioni a écrit : > For what it is worth, and despite knowing it is politically incorrect to > admit to using an autorouter, I have used Freeroute in the past and would > like to continue using it in the future. As much fun as manual routing is (I > treat it like a video game) sometimes you just want a board quickly. You can > always clean up dumb routes. > > Moreover, like Geographic reannotation, autorouting is a normal feature for a > professional PCB CAD tool and its absence is the sort of thing which is > noticed. >
I agree with Brian. And this is the exact reason I added a (poor) autorouter in Pcbnew. > -----Original Message----- > From: Kicad-developers > <kicad-developers-bounces+brian=documenteddesigns....@lists.launchpad.net> On > Behalf Of Wayne Stambaugh > Sent: May 23, 2018 9:17 AM > To: Luca Mini <luca.mini.freela...@gmail.com> > Cc: kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] FreeRouting > > Hi Luca, > > Thanks for link. It appears that we may have been a bit premature on the > removal of the FreeRouting dialog. I just downloaded the latest source code > from the website below and the latest source file modification date is > 10/27/17 so it appears that our assumption that FreeRouting is no longer > being maintained is false. There are even instructions on how to use KiCad > with FreeRouting[1] which shows the removed dialog. Of course, we could ping > the FreeRouting folks to update their website to use the KiCad export and > import features. Would someone please check on the user forum and see if we > are going to get a lot of backlash for removing this? > > Thanks, > > Wayne > > [1]: https://freerouting.org/freerouting/using-with-kicad > > On 5/23/2018 8:51 AM, Luca Mini wrote: >> Hi Wayne, >> I use freerouting and this link seems to be active on the "Freerouting" >> argument. >> >> https://freerouting.org >> >> Cheers, >> Luca >> >> >> *Luca Mini* >> Via Brione, 11/C >> 10040 Givoletto (TO) >> EMAIL: luca.mini.freela...@gmail.com >> <mailto:luca.mini.freela...@gmail.com> >> Cell: +39 334 2459673 >> >> 2018-05-21 18:54 GMT+02:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com >> <mailto:stambau...@gmail.com>>: >> >> Hey JP, >> >> On 5/21/2018 12:27 PM, jp charras wrote: >> > Le 21/05/2018 à 18:09, Seth Hillbrand a écrit : >> >> Hi Wayne- >> >> >> >> In https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1567790 >> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1567790> you mentioned that we >> won't be supporting FreeRouting for >> >> v5. Should we remove this menu item/icon from the menus? >> >> >> >> -S >> >> >> > >> > Hi Seth, >> > >> > Are you talking about .dsn and .ses files export import, or the >> menu to call FreeRoute from Pcbnew? >> > >> > This is really not the same thing. >> > Many EDA tools support .dsn and .ses files export import (and this >> import/export feature does not >> > create issues). >> > >> >> I'm OK with removing the FreeRouting dialog and menu entry. I don't see >> any compelling reason to keep it since we already have support for >> Specctra dsn export and Specctra session import for users who wish to >> continue using it. Is FreeRouting even supported any more? I thought >> it hasn't been maintained for quite some time. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Wayne -- Jean-Pierre CHARRAS _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
