Kicad Interactive Router (release version)
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- čas přidán 20. 05. 2014
- A tutorial for the recently released Kicad Interactive Router. Available in the newest Kicad "product" branch at launchpad.net/kicad
There's more stuff coming from CERN, check out our roadmap:
www.ohwr.org/projects/cern-kic... - Věda a technologie
you guys did a freaking awsome job!
after 2 minutes of this video i had to call one of my best friends to tell him about your features!
Thank you very, very much!
OMG!
I have waited this for so long! There's just no package with decent price that has these tools! I hope it'll rival even those of Altium designer (bus routing and such).
I have waited that Kicad could be used for serious work and this Cern branch really gives me hope! :)
Great work guys and hopefully te stagnant development of Kicad has stopped for good with this initiative!
Amen! Thanks to Cern for the great work on Kicad. Great open source PCB tools are needed, and you are certainly making Kicad great!
Brilliant. Thanks, Tom and the rest of the team at CERN.
Wow. I have been looking for this for hours. Thank you very much!
I cannot say how happy I am! Thank you!
Isn't it about time Kicad had an auto route option? I can't imagine doing the whole of that board you have, from scratch, with what looks like thousands of tracks!!!
andy parry Believe me, Andy, no serious PCB designer uses an autorouter ;)
Tom W Really? I'm a novice, but it seems like an "initial" autoroute function would be the first step before manually polishing the traces.
Fantastic! (speed of your manual routing is higher than my autoroute with OrCad/PC386 in 90s years :-) )
Awesome! Great work Tom!
That is the sexiest thing I have seen in a long time. THANK YOU THANK YOU CERN!!!
Great tutorial for a great tool!
Awesome, thank you for your work guys!
Thank you so much! You've done mankind a great service!
Impressive! Thank you!
Hey Tom, Great progress from all of you for kicad, very useful tools that you've developed. One question, it's possible shove or drag group of tracks with those new features? thanks
Thank you very much Sir, I build the package and its working, cool
how is it possible to change to different layers than top and bottom? i have a four layer setup but can't figure out, how to go to the inner layers.
Cheers
very good product the autorouter is the best......
Hello, i have KiCad 5.1.2 and i cannot get the shove mode (or any interactive routing mode) to work... Any idea why? I don't have ratsnest/netlist/schema, is that the problem? Will i be able to move components in PCB without breaking the traces? At least a little, when collision does not yet happen?
Could we have a feature that reuses the same trace optimiser but allows to grab and move components? Right now the slightest nudge sends them floating, that's honestly stupid.
so it is February of 2016 now, i have a questions:
1) does via/trace shoving work good now?
2) does differential routing/length matching also works well?
3) does length matching in general also work?
4) is there such a thing as "layout reuse" ? for example, if i have similar schematic block inside a schematic sheets, i lay out once, then i copy and other similar layouts are done in same layout project?
+Rtwo Comm (R2COM) I used it for a couple of boards, the least I can say it that it's a life changer compared to the older versions ;-)
Thanks a lot, very helpfull class. Regards !
Is this feature already in the current release? I have the version 4.0.2 from the arch package manager
I am new in PCB CADs - why is not possible to create clever enough Autorouter for fully automatic routing? And why you did not use Autorouter - Automatic trace function?
Because autorouters don't work. None exists that does a good job on serious PCBs. Compared to humans, autorouters are dumb.
Imagine you have a messed PCB with lots of very entangled traces that you have to un-entangle. The human will do it by hand with his brains, and then the computer can optimize the traces. But if you simply let the computer autorouter, it will "optimize" the mess and make it even more entangled, because the algorithms to un-entangle traces are too primitive, or don't exist at all. The problem of un-entangling traces is very hard and algorithms are usually very weak at that.
The solution provided here is the best working solution: the human does the routing himself, and the computer simply helps optimize the traces.
What is the PCB you're working on? Some sort of FPGA card with lots of RAM?
Crazy how the automerge is viewed as an innovation. That tells a lot about how hard other software failed.
What is automerge?
Awesome !
this is superior to that other red program... goodbye domestic animal
Wow!
Where can I download this?
How can I run it on MacOSX? I can start the interactive Router but i can´t do place any vias or open options and so on...
Which revision of Kicad do you have?
Tom W Hy Tom, I have KiCas 2012-02-26 BZR 4721
Cele Born
It's quite old (the video at 00:52 says you need at least 4874). You must compile a newer version.
cool!
Can you do it from python console?
When can I expect release?
***** When it's ready to release. We're aiming for end of July- beginning August.
Tom W Looking forward to it. KiCad is my favourite, and it just gets better!
now if we could just some decent 3d cad software for our 3d printers that'd be great
i should say FREE and OPEN cad software
Cameron Belt FreeCad isn't free enough or open enough for you?
you could give Blender a try. It's not a CAD software, but it does a decent job at drawing 3D stuff.
You should support FreeCAD, I just used that yesterday to make my mechanical part for 3D printing.
if (Orson )
no Error! :)
not for kicad 5. win7 users get lost :(
I think I just came in my pants : O
Where can I download this?
it's the development branch of KiCad. Just go and download the kicad winbuilder (for windows) or similar and run the makefile to download and compile the latest bleeding edge of kicad. Don't use it for sensitive boards though. bugs are almost guaranteed in some way or another.