Why product design industry prefer manual routing over autoroute for designing Pcb layout?

My opinion about autorouting was established many years ago…

All my PCBs (till now) are 2 layers. We use only SMD elements (electrolytic capacitors, terminal blocks and relays are really the only exceptions). Layout conception I use can be described as follows:

  • use all bottom as GND,
  • spend long time at element placement (and rotation) to find the best to make connections without crossing (I switch microcontroller pin assignment to functions many times),
  • if can’t avoid crossing I prefere to add 0R 0603 then to break my GND at bottom.
  • go with VCC (at top) under microcontroller and propagate from it radially (through corners and its VCC pins),
  • put blocking capacitors just near each VCC/GND microcontroller pin pairs,
  • put blocking capacitor for other ICs just near their VCC pin and via it directly to GND.
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