Altium freez while Autoroute

[mohammadyou]

I have tried to auto route a design ( altium v10.589 ) for couple of times but after 20 min there was almost 16 (out of 1000) connector that doesn't connect so I changed the place of footprints and try again.
suddenly the software doesn't work.
it just use CPU resources but nothing happen at all.( even after 2.5 hour I don't see, it connect to pin together )
I re-install the software, I update PCB form SCH , Update PCB from Library nothing chanced :twisted:
Any idea?
Tnx

 

[yura717]

Try ... 13.3.4 Build 28608

 

[Ow@i$]

by changing the place you should also create some more space by adjusting other components as well to make out more space .. often the auto router gets stuck because it doesn't find space to route

 

[mohammadyou]

Thanks Guys for your reply.
in the same board I had done the auto route. it seems to me it doesn't even try to route at all.
I've changed the size board even bigger but nothing happened.

 

[Ow@i$]

increasing size of the board is one thing .. what i told you actually meant to open up space around the nets that doesn't get routed and see with wide open spaces does the router now routing the nets that it wasn't previously.. if it does then mean no need to change the version of software if it stills don't route despite space means u install new software version...
prefernce is to do manual route, but if layout is not that crutial depending upon your signals you can do autoroute,
one more thing here is we use auto router not for 100% routing but for routing major chunk to be routed next we manually route the remaining nets ourselves,

 

[DonnyP]

I never had any luck with the Altium autorouter and after seeing what a real autorouter looks like, Altium should dump the one they have and start over with a new one from scratch. Reading the official Altium Forums, you can see users complaining for years about the awful autorouter. Maybe some decade they will work on it?