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Make hobbyist PCBs with professional CAD tools by modifying "Design Rules"

Step 11Save your chosen rules, and autoroute again

Save your chosen rules, and autoroute again
Having changed all those parameters, we should APPLY them, and then we can go back to the FILE panel and save them somewhere appropriate:

When creating future boards, you can use the FILE panel of the DRC window to read in the hobbyist-friendly parameters instead of having to retype them all. (Or just get the honny.dru file from the top page.) You can even suck them in you your init file.

Getting back to the circuit, if I run the autorouter NOW, I get a much more reasonable looking result...
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