Hi all,
Here it goes.
I use Eagle layout editor 4.
I have created a schematic and I switch the board where I place the components. I start the autorouter, everything works fine but let's say that I realise that the design would benefit from moving one component to another location. Moving the component is no drama but my problem is that I can't figure out how to start the autorouter with the new layout.
Advice how to do this is very much appreciated.
Publish what you find. The only thing I've been able to do is unroute everything and start over. Very annoying when 95% of it's good and you only need to tweek one thing. The new route may be totally different and much worse overall.
On 19 Nov 2004 20:51:02 -0800 in sci.electronics.cad, snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com.au wrote,
Well, I don't know what the mystery is. If routing is not complete and you still have airwires, you restart the autorouter the same way you started it the first time. If there are no airwires, rip up some traces with the yellow rip-up icon tool to create some, then restart autoroute. Draw a box over the moved component with the group tool, then click rip-up, and right-click to unroute all of the grouped connections. Or rip up everything to start from scratch. Or whatever you want.
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