Let me start by saying I used to use the autorouter to route entire boards (SPECCTRA) because the boards were simple and because I didn't know any better.
Now I've moved on to manual routing, to more neatly route and to route critical nets the way I want them, and just to learn in general. Welll, as I was going, I wasn't locking down my routes, I was just figuring I would end up routing the entire board by hand. So, at this point, I have a considerable amount of routes that I did manually and I don't want moved by an autorouter (such as SPECCTRA) if I were to autoroute a section (which I haven't figured out how to do with SPECCTRA, but could do with OrCAD's autorouter) or the entire board which I could do with either autorouter.
So, in short, my question is, how can I quickly either lock down all the routes I have without individually selecting every last one of them, or at least somehow indicate to the autorouters that I don't want my manual traces moved at all?
It would be a huge PITA if I had to select every single route and hit lock or whatever, so I was hoping I could just use a select any and highlight the whole board such that every route would be selected and do it globally like that, but I can't get that to work, so I'm either missing something, or it isn't possible?
Any hints or tips? How about for the future? When I route manually and know I will be using an autorouter, should I / do I have to lock every trace when I finish it? That is annoying too! Sometimes I have to move the trace when I do a new one and locking and unlocking here and there could get tedious! Hopefully there is in fact an easy way out of this!