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difflvl
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 12 Dec 2007 22:24 Altium Designer PCB Benchmark |
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Has anyone autorouted the PCB benchmark?
Pentium Core 2 Quad 3ghz - took 1 hour and 37 mins for completion
Pads & Elektra route the same board in under 20-30 minutes.
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Frosty
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12 Dec 2007 23:04 Re: Altium Designer PCB Benchmark |
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The protel/altium router is not worthy of a lot of praise. Fanouts and odd quick job is OK, anything else its sklow and very messy
its always been like that, they were begged by users at one time to do a deal for elektra but it never happened.
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rikie_rizza
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19 Dec 2007 10:00 @ltium Designer PCB Benchmark |
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| I encounter that problem too... QFN or TQFP package cannot be auto-routed when place 45 degree. Must manual fanout before auto-route.
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fala
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19 Dec 2007 16:10 @ltium Designer PCB Benchmark |
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| Hello, It highly depends on your boards. While I also believe situs is far from perfect, by reducing clearance and track width and increasing space between parts required time decreases almost logarithmically. But god forbidden if you need to route a high voltage, high current >250V complex board which needs considerable clearance and width into a small board. It took about a month for me to manually route such a board, compare it to situs. well it simply fails at very early stages, it can't!
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