I am laying out a Board today (or this week).
Using Altium Designer 13.2 (which is old now but company does not prioritize these kind of tools which is the way it is).
However I have some issues with the "interactive routing" just manual routing but we like the fancy names.
1. I have a 0.75 gap a 0.25 clearance and 0.25 mm trace and it will not allow the track to rout through noting the grid is 0.125 and aligns perfectly. However it I drag or drop a trace in there it is fine. This is basically a bug but I am not using the latest soft ware so I guess I will just have to live with it.
2. When placing traces over traces with violation it keeps the trace with violations instead of ripping them up. This has always been a problem and from my point of view it makes absolutely no sense. Considering the state of machine learning these days I would be very concerned if the latest Altium till dose this. Which It probably dose because i have not heard about any application of machine learning in the interactive routing.
Using Altium Designer 16.1
3. Has a bug with the Output Job system were if you copy and paste a output or container all to a different project all the links are embedding into the file when they are suppose to be dependent on the project and the files get corrupted with the wrong links.
Same happens if you copy a job file into a new project.
Kind of makes a mockery of the point of the job file if you need to define them from scratch every time exactly the same.
4. Interactive routing is brain dead still as stated in 2.
Here we live in the age of neural networks and some tools are just stupid.
