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 (DIR) Post #AjJ1QiMggUfcwFts4u by foone@digipres.club
       2024-06-26T02:41:41Z
       
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       every time I need to design a PCB I'm like "this'll be quick and easy, I won't need to design any footprints or symbols at all!"and then an hour later I'm staring into the Kicad footprint editor and crying
       
 (DIR) Post #AjJ23NfLZoqs2G47Rw by abrasive@digipres.club
       2024-06-26T02:48:54Z
       
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       @foone I swear footprints take up 90% of my energy during any design and I hate italthough to be fair parts selection/ordering is the other 70% that I hate
       
 (DIR) Post #AjJ2DSMqx0QFVtDftY by abrasive@digipres.club
       2024-06-26T02:50:40Z
       
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       @foone why does nobody seem to have a wee parametric solver CAD that lets you say "this edge of this pad is so-and-so mm from that edge of that hole" so that you can directly input datasheet drawings rather than having to faff around with a calculator and make mistakes?
       
 (DIR) Post #AjJ3EeMHxDygwj5XyC by djg@toad.social
       2024-06-26T03:00:22Z
       
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       @foone Have you tried Altium? I ran their free-trial for a while a couple revisions ago, had a huge parts library and strict design rules. Was great for a simple rectangular board design and wouldn’t let me screw up spacing or edge clearance. The software gated when I tried a circular board with radial component alignments and no software likes arc segments for traces…
       
 (DIR) Post #AjJ5WbiwgiV9tcNPfc by foone@digipres.club
       2024-06-26T03:27:46Z
       
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       I ran DRC for the first time and hit zero errors.suspicious...
       
 (DIR) Post #AjJ76MMrMLAueHerDs by danderson@hachyderm.io
       2024-06-26T03:45:00Z
       
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       @foone This is why every time I start making KiCAD stuff, I dust off the little DSL I made ten years ago to plop out custom symbols and footprints. No I would not like to put a 40-pin symbol on my schematic when I'm using 5 lines of this poor microcontroller, save that for the gerbers I want a tailored symbol for this design!Alas, it's very old crumbly python, and rewriting it is currently behind "reimplement Unicode" on the todo list, so...
       
 (DIR) Post #AjJ893t8cbGE9ubltw by bytex64@awesome.garden
       2024-06-26T03:57:07Z
       
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       @foone Definitely a DRC bug.
       
 (DIR) Post #AjJIymdX0VhBFmbs80 by Badscrew@hachyderm.io
       2024-06-26T05:58:34Z
       
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       @foone No copper layers? 😂
       
 (DIR) Post #AjJJSSOapL2fAHlvIe by scribblesonnapkins@mastodon.social
       2024-06-26T06:03:58Z
       
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       @foone pcb-rnd has the ability to translate ultralibrarian and some other formats kicad can't. So you might use it to convert them to kicad.
       
 (DIR) Post #AjJVCAzSyEra041Riq by gilesgoat@toot.wales
       2024-06-26T08:15:09Z
       
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       @foone Everyone has his/her Achille's heel .. mine is PCB routing as well .. I can put complex schematics/do simulations in relatively short time .. but then comes the layout problem .. here "my brain kind shuts down" and I start crying after I routed some tracks. Normally I get 80% done then I get stuck with "impossible routing" and I start crying .. 😢
       
 (DIR) Post #AjKJn9YJ1540QWWs9w by clomads@mastodon.social
       2024-06-26T17:41:46Z
       
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       @foone I usually have a connector hanging off the board so I get at least one error to know if it’s working.