Imported EasyEDA footprints come out in arbitrary rotations and have to be fixed by hand. The fix rotates pin 1 to the top left by default, and 53 of 120 test assets changed.
Recurring agent failure issue in easyeda-converter (tscircuit)
What engineers report
A recurring agent failure problem in easyeda-converter (tscircuit) that mostly hits the electrical engineer.
Failure pattern: validation / failure
Analyst note
From the Grok pain-radar digests, Nov 9-10 2026 (Nov 9 7:41 AM ET through Nov 10 7:41 AM ET digests plus the Haitch editions). Verified live 2026-11-10: issue/PR read; title and state confirmed.
What it costs a team
Modeled annual cost
$30,000
For a team of 5
Prototype delay
3 days
Modeled schedule slip per occurrence
Time lost
240 min
Per engineer per month, about 1 incidents
How the cost is modeled
240 min/month × 5 engineers × 12 months = 240 hours × $125/hour = $30,000
A modeled estimate with medium confidence. Swap in your own team size and loaded rate to size it for your team.
Engineering tools that address it
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Evidence
More recurring errors in easyeda-converter (tscircuit)
- Found while building a 50 x 48 mm four-gang touch panel with a CAP1188: the supplier data gives the GND pin SPICE number 23 and physical number 25, but the converter matches pads by the SPICE number, so pad 25 comes out labelled pin25 without its ground flag and VDD stays on pad 23. The PR is a repro with captured supplier data and no production fix yet.ECAD · impact 74
- Follow-up fix to #633: pins now map by the physical pin number text, not the SPICE number in the EasyEDA header, so CAP1188 keeps GND on pad 25. Found while building a 50 x 48 mm four-gang touch-panel PCB.ECAD · impact 66
- Importing crystal C5548373 from JLCPCB fails outright with loadCapacitance (Required), leaving zero ports and pads, because supplier data has no load capacitance field.ECAD · impact 66
- The upstream fix context for the EasyEDA USB-C import bug: the parser read only the first argument group of repeated SVG path commands, which drew a 9.96 mm diagonal filled region on the fab layer; re-running all 115 captured parts showed two other parts were quietly wrong in the same way.ECAD · impact 66
- tscircuit's EasyEDA importer turns LM393 (LCSC C7955) physical pad 6 into pin9 and drops pin6, so you cannot pick channel B's inverting input by its datasheet pin number. The PR adds a one-part repro, and the PCB snapshot shows 8 7 9 5 across the top row.ECAD · impact 66
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