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Partial Auto-Routing always worked quite good.

But: 99.9% of the people forget about setting the routing constraints/rules so the results turn out to be very bad. Even professionals forget about this.

Lots of things also cannot be auto-routed as you have to work around of details. Usually high-frequency DCDC converters belong into that region for example.

As a beginner these are no tools for you as you cannot judge if they are creating extremely bad designs or what will work. Stick super close to reference designs from datasheets and there will be a good chance that they will work just fine.



The ROTs I always heard was "don't use it it's shit!" I never validated it myself, and now it's gone from KiCad!

Would love auto routing if it was good; routing is tedius, and on cramped PCBs, can be frustrating and make your designs high-inertia to change.

Incidentally, team 6+ layers! Makes routing easier.


Even "naked" auto-routers without configuration are great to check if there's any solution for routing by hand.




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