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by mdszy 2405 days ago
There are tons of rule of thumb routing design choices made that lead to being able to route incredibly complex PCB's which becomes a topological problem. Rules that would need to be either programmed into such a system, or somehow potentially AI could use a huge corpus of board designs and schematics to make a better auto router.

My point is that as they stand currently, autorouters are absolute trash and you should not be depending on them.

The only real place they work is when you have a trivial routing situation but it would be incredibly tedious to route by hand, like a bus with 100+ traces or something.