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by arbie 2911 days ago
One of the main points the post is missing is the distinction between a placer and a router. Most (all?) PCB design tools do not come with a connectivity-based placer. They only ship with a maze-, grid- or shape-based router.

Placement and Routing together is generally the domain of the very-expensive EDA tools inferred in the main article.