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[Tomasz Wlostowski <tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx>]

On 04/09/2014 09:50 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote:
> Gerber to the fab facility today. Not a big job (about 50 parts) but
> a cute board anyway:P
>
> Everything seems to works fine, the kiwaying seems to work as designed
> for now.
>
> First time I tried the P&S router, at least didn't crashed immediately
> as before :P AFAIK it still doesn't follow the grid, too bad, would be
> useful for many short-range trackage.
/Lorenzo,

/It's probably the auto-neckdown algorithm that makes short tracks look 
"broken" sometimes. I'm working on improving it for
the next release. BTW. vector/topological routers are usually gridless ;)
>   P&S for long range on mixed
> signals would be madness anyway :D
Could you elaborate more on that?
> In my next copious free time I would refactor the cleanup track code to
> aid in fixing the ugly "can't drag collinear" (using the track merge code,
> obviously...). Anyway, if it isn't changed, that code is way too much
> UI-coupled for my tastes.
The new P&S will have that. Also a mark-DRC-errors-without-pushing mode 
will be available.

Tom