I don't use the autoroute feature because it begins to throw a fit when you start tightly packing components together, and I frequently disagreed with it's choice of routes. Now that some time has passed, I can see places where the routing wasn't optimal. I told them I didnt want them and they erased them from the Gerber file before production. After submission of the board, I got an email from them asking what I wanted to do with the crosses, since they were below spec. I used the smash operator to place the text of parts in convenient locations wherever possible, an unfortunate side effect of the smash operator is that it places 1 mil location crosses in the silkscreen layer (they are the "handle" to move the text within Eagle). Yes Advanced Circuits, it was my first fab house board, and I chose them because of their price and their oversight of the process (since it was my first, I didn't want to make a dumb $100 mistake). I have had some shorts on really tight spaced I use Advanced circuits for the higher quality stuff. The $33 each deal is the one I use most often, and it's one of the best deals around.ĥ boards, 5 days turn, silk screen and soldermask included for $75. My favorite part is their 7 mil line/space minimum dimension, allowing me to pack some really dense routing into places other houses won't touch. I've been using them for years, from their barebones hobbyist boards (copper, no thru-holes, no silkscreen, no LPI soldermask, just etched and plated copper) to their full-blown production service (11 layer impedence controlled mixed signal boards with custom soldermasking, crazy internal routed shapes and an impossibly short turnaround) and they've never been anything less than perfect. I'll second Paul's recomendation for Advanced Circuits.
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