Free/Open Source PCB autorouter in development; help wanted

On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:23:08 -0500, the renowned
"krw@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz" <krw@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz> wrote:

>On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 22:36:02 -0400, "Tom Del Rosso"
><td_03@verizon.net.invalid> wrote:
>
>>
>>krw@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz wrote:
>>> The layout guy often seems to be in
>>> disagreement, though.  ;-)  He often doesn't even read the hints in
>>> the schematic ("layout notes").  :-(
>>
>>What are the academic requirements of a "layout guy" anyway?
>
>For us?  Dunno.  He isn't an engineer (electrical, anyway) but has a lot of
>years experience with several other companies (including contracting for
>himself).  

There isn't much in the way of academic requirements. I use a Russian
PhD, and an locally grown art student. 


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On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:46:19 -0700 (PDT), JeffM <jeffm_@email.com>
wrote:

>>Tom Del Rosso wrote:
>>>What are the academic requirements of a "layout guy" anyway?
>>>
>John Larkin wrote:
>>My kid does our PCB design, and she's very good and very fast.
>>She went to Cornell, and majored in softball and beer pong.
>>
>What was her minor and with what other companies did she interview?

Psychology. Come to think of it, she never interviewed anywhere else. 

She used to work summers in production, which is great education for
laying out boards. All lay-outers should assemble boards first.

John

On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:11:34 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:


>
>She used to work summers in production, which is great education for
>laying out boards. All lay-outers should assemble boards first.
>
>John

Or like some of us who had to fix that shit in the local TV repair
shop during high school.  Learned REAL quick how to design for
service.

Jim

RST Engineering wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:11:34 -0700, John Larkin
> <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
>
>
> >
> > She used to work summers in production, which is great education for
> > laying out boards. All lay-outers should assemble boards first.
> >
> > John
>
> Or like some of us who had to fix that shit in the local TV repair
> shop during high school.  Learned REAL quick how to design for
> service.

Last time I tried to fix a TV the difficulty wasn't layout (actually the 
failure was *caused* by layout) but the damn plastic case.  Take off the 
back, and the bottom came off with it.  How are you supposed to fix a TV 
when it can't stop falling over?


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Tom Del Rosso wrote:
> 
> Last time I tried to fix a TV the difficulty wasn't layout (actually the
> failure was *caused* by layout) but the damn plastic case.  Take off the
> back, and the bottom came off with it.  How are you supposed to fix a TV
> when it can't stop falling over?


   Duct tape.


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