User Guide

Please note that changing the parameters before recalling will not influ
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ence the job, since it will have been saved together with the parameters
whichwerevalidatthetimeoftheinitialAutorouterstart.
When the Autorouter has finished, the routed board is saved as
name.b$$. You can rename it to name.brd and use it, for instance, if a
power failure occurred after the autorouting run and you could not save
the board file. This file is deleted automatically after the board has been
saved.
7.10 InformationfortheUser
Status Display
During the routing, the Autorouter displays information on the actual
routingresultinthestatusbar.
Thedisplayedvalueshavethefollowingmeaning:
Route: result % (hitherto maximum, best data
Vias: Number of vias
Conn.: Connections total/found/not routable
Ripup: No. of ripups/cur. RipupLevel/cur. RipupTotal
Signals: Signals found/signals handled/signals prepared
Connectionsmeans2-pointconnections.
ThesignificanceofthevariousRIPUPoptions:
Numberofripups:
This indicates the number of connections that have already been routed
during the foregoing routing procedure that have been (can be) remo
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vedinordertobeabletoroutenewsignals.
CurrentRipupLevel:
This indicates the number of connections that have been removed or
convertedinairwiresinordertolaythetrackforthecurrentsignal.
CurrentRipupTotal:
After a signal's routes have been ripped up it can be broken down into a
large number of two-point connections. These connections are then
routed again. This variable indicates the number of such two-point
connectionsstilltoberouted.
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