Comment by Roark66

How's Kicad's autoroute these days? For anyone who says "no Pro uses autoroute" I can say electronics is a hobby for me and when I'm designing a PCB I like to autoroute first, see all the issues, then go back, move my components, autoroute again, once I arrive at optimal placement I do maybe 10% of traces manually (these are the ones autorouter does weird stuff with) then I let autoroute deal with remaining 90% of repetitive stuff. Finally I just tweak few things here and there. I think I tried kicad few years ago and I was back to altium very quickly. For typical hobby use one can't really afford altium so kicad is the only way to go, but if you can have it I'd choose altium every time.