traxide (h3ll5ur7er)ECADConfidence: Medium

The router's own check and KiCad's DRC disagreed twice on one board (a plane join walled off by vias, copper 0.8 um too close to a cutout), and wiring KiCad DRC into CI then found 698 errors from stale GND pour fills the tool had never warned designers to refill.

Impact Analysis

Persona

Electrical Engineer

Team Size Impact

5x Multiplier

Prototype Delay

3 Days

Est. Annual Cost

$30,000

1 user · 1 month240 min
Rest of team960 min
Rest of year13,200 min

monthly_minutes × 12 × team_multiplier ÷ 60 × $75/hr = $30k/yr

$75/hr assumed rate.

Annual team-minutes decomposed from the reported monthly inputs.

Evidence & Sources

1 Sources

h3ll5ur7er/traxide PR #17: TRX-62: Judge the corpus's KiCad projects with KiCad's DRC; tell designers to refill zones

github.com

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Analyst Notes

From the Grok pain-radar digest, Oct 24-25 2026 (Oct 24 evening to Oct 25 morning slots). Verified live 2026-10-25: issue/PR read on GitHub; title and state confirmed.