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Jocelyn Kahler
Hey guys, haven't posted in a couple of weeks, so things are obviously going a bit better(Thanks to you folks), but I have run into some issues that I'd like to ask about.
1.) Does orcad 17.2 have autoroute? I am having a nightmare of a time with a new microsd connector that has a different footprint than our last one. I made a new footprint, but i'm having trouble finding a path for my traces. Just out of curiosity I thought i'd like to try autoroute, and see if it helps even with 1 or 2 connections, but unfortunately I can't seem to find it in 17.2. Is autoroute in 17.2? has it been replaced with something else?
2.) Randomly, 'place via' is now greyed out, and I can't seem to add via's anymore unless I copy and paste one in.
The specctra autorouter is external to Orcad and Allegro. You export the other kind of DSN file from Orcad/Allegro then run the Specctra program on it. Route, then import the file (.rte) back to Allegro/Orcad.
You will find there is not a huge amount of love for autorouters in this forum. The push and shove router is very powerful and works extremely well. Autorouters can be very useful and CAN save time BUT they really need setting up properly to get optimal results. For high frequency/ layout sensitive designs that often takes more time than routing the project manually. The lack of an in-built autorouter is usually most complained about by users new to PCB layout who assume that the process can be completely automated and are happy with a spaghetti mess as long as it passes ERC. They can save a lot of time when routing a wide bus, but so can the P&S.
I have had to improve a couple of boards this year that were routing disasters because of poor choices of connector locations and component placement by the original designer. They were partly autorouted and to be honest it had done a reasonable job considering the choices made. I had to move components around to get the track flow more logical. Placing components and choosing connector pin outs is hard for software to do.
I used to use an autorouter myself, but disliked the lengthy cleanup (fixing sloppy routing and correcting many, MANY DRC errors!) that followed importing the file back into KiCAD, and manually lay out my boards now.
Hi, I'm new to using Ultiboard (this is my first project) but I did the the tutorial and feel somewhat comfortable with it after tinkering with it for awhile now. I drew my design on Multisim and now I'm having trouble getting my autoroute to work. It starts and is over in 2 seconds without placing a single trace. This is what I've tried so far: Adding layers, adjusting trace width, adjusting distance from pads, and toying with autoroute settings. It won't let me manually connect my nets either. I'm about to just get rid of all the nets and free hand but that would be very tedious because I have 236 connections. I've attached my file, thanks for any help.
How do I route just certain nets or a block of components. I tried doing the Select button in the autorouter box, then select the traces I want routed, but when I click on the autoroute icon again and press start it starts routing the whole board. I also tried Select, then used the Group icon to highlight the components, then select the autoroute icon again and hit start but it still routes the whole board.
The autorouter was able to get to 98.1% when I just did a brute force route everything just to see what happened, so the autorouter obviously is quite capable, just not very smart when you want to connect 2 adjacent pins on the same layer with nothing in between them but wide open space. Funny.
A more serious issue though is when I selected several airwires to autoroute, I got a warning about my gnd innerlayer not being on and when I canceled the autoroute, the airwires were gone for these several routes. I turned off and on the unrouted layer in the layers but that did nothing. I had to close the program and reload it with a previous version to get the airwires back.
OK. One other question. If I want to autoroute a section (or to finish routing after I've done all the necessary manual routing) I should turn on all the layers, but what if I don't want traces to go to an inner layer? What if I just want the routing to go top and bottom and not route on inner layers. How do I do this?
This command is used to route the entire board using the Situs Autorouter. Situs is a Topological Autorouter. A topological autorouter uses a different method of mapping the routing space - one that is not geometrically constrained. Rather than using workspace coordinate information as a frame of reference (dividing it into a grid), a topological autorouter builds a map using only the relative positions of the obstacles in the space, without reference to their coordinates. It does this by triangulating the space between adjacent obstacles. This triangulated map is then used by the routing algorithms to "weave" between the obstacle pairs from the start route point to the end route point. The greatest strengths of this approach are that the map is shape independent (the obstacles and routing paths can be any shape) and the space can be traversed at any angle - the routing algorithms are not restricted to purely vertical or horizontal paths, as with a rectilinear expansion routers.
After launching the command, the Choose Net Classes to Route dialog will open. Select one or more net classes that you wish to route using the Autorouter then click OK - the Autorouter will attempt to autoroute all connections for all nets in the chosen net class(es) using the Main routing strategy.
After launching the command, the Choose Component Classes to Route dialog will open. Select one or more component classes that you wish to route using the Autorouter, specifiy the Connections Routing Mode then click OK - the Autorouter will attempt to autoroute all connections that emanate from the pads of all components in the chosen component class(es) using the Main routing strategy.
After launching the command, the Autorouter will initialize and the cursor will change to a cross-hair. Position the cursor over any connection line (or pad) in the net you wish to route then click or press Enter. The Autorouter will attempt to autoroute all connections in the net using the Main routing strategy.
After launching the command, the Autorouter will initialize and the cursor will change to a cross-hair. Position the cursor over the component you wish to route then click or press Enter. The Autorouter will attempt to autoroute all connections emanating from pads of the chosen component, up to the next encountered pad in each case using the Main routing strategy.
After launching the command, the Autorouter will attempt to autoroute all connections emanating from pads of the selected components, up to the next encountered pad in each case using the Main routing strategy.
After launching the command, the Autorouter will attempt to autoroute all connections emanating from pads of the component, up to the next encountered pad in each case using the Main routing strategy.
After launching the command, the Autorouter will initialize and the cursor will change to a cross-hair. Position the cursor then click to anchor the first corner of the routing area. Move the cursor to size the routing area then click to anchor the second corner. The Autorouter will attempt to autoroute all connections starting and ending within the designated area using the Main routing strategy.
After launching the command, the Autorouter will initialize and the cursor will change to a cross-hair. Position the cursor over the room you wish to route then click or press Enter. The Autorouter will attempt to autoroute all connections that reside completely within the room boundaries using the Main routing strategy.
The Situs Autorouter is a Topological Autorouter. A topological autorouter uses a different method of mapping the routing space - one that is not geometrically constrained. Rather than using workspace coordinate information as a frame of reference (dividing it into a grid), a topological autorouter builds a map using only the relative positions of the obstacles in the space without reference to their coordinates. It does this by triangulating the space between adjacent obstacles. This triangulated map is then used by the routing algorithms to "weave" between the obstacle pairs from the start route point to the end route point. The greatest strengths of this approach are that the map is shape independent (the obstacles and routing paths can be any shape) and the space can be traversed at any angle - the routing algorithms are not restricted to purely vertical or horizontal paths as with a rectilinear expansion routers.
This command is used to reset the Autorouter - initializing the memory needed by the autorouter before it attempts to route. It allows you to effectively modify the existing routing strategy, or change to a different routing strategy, on-the-fly, when routing the entire board.
The autorouter is configured and run from the Tools Autoroute Autoroute menu on the Ribbon. Selecting All from the menu opens the Situs Routing Strategies dialog, which is used to configure the strategies, select the required strategy, and run the autorouter.
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