Who's using autorouters for their designs?

From: Henk Boonsma (hboonsma_at_teranet.news)
Date: 10/22/04 

Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 19:39:24 +0200

I'm wondering how many people are using autorouters for their board layouts
and in what percentage (i.e. what percentage is being routed by the
autorouter)? I've had some bad experience using autorouters and hardly use
them anymore. OTOH, Electra claims that autorouters do a very decent job
with digital circuits and that even though the layout doesn't look as
'artistic' as one done by a human, they are ussually better.

When I look at board layouts on most digital products (e.g. motherboards) it
seems to me that they've been done manually (i.e. most signal busses are
perfectly routed next to each other, something an autorouter won't ussually
do).

What do you guys think?