Backplane (BackplaneWorks) errors

4 recurring problems engineers report in Backplane (BackplaneWorks), ranked by impact.

#112 by errors trackedPDMMCADECADVerification

Recurring Backplane (BackplaneWorks) errors, by impact

  1. 1In a real project the 29 x 22 mm board existed only in a sibling worktree while main held a 70 x 50 mm draft at the same path, and the project page showed the wrong board. Seven thread worktrees sat on one old commit with nothing saying which design was current. Boards and schematics can only be merged by taking one side whole, so per-agent branches do not work for hardware.PDM · Agent failure · 1 report74
  2. 2Among several contributor fixes, a failed CAD export now stops publication of release outputs and keeps the original error. The new export-error tests are included but haven't run.MCAD · Agent failure · 1 report66
  3. 3On Windows 11 the native viewer shows component bodies as grey boxes and the mechanical tab fails a valid STEP with 'converter produced no model'. Two path bugs: it never looks in the Windows KiCad profile under %APPDATA%\kicad, and the model cache defaults to /tmp, which native Windows code and the shell-launched converter resolve to different folders. Separately, a requested GLB is acknowledged but the viewer silently loads a different file from mech/, while the STEP assets and model assignments were fine the whole time.ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report66
  4. 4STEP models were meshed at 0.1 mm and 0.5 rad, so a circle came out about 12-sided in the viewer. The new default on a 131-part assembly goes from 62k to 162k triangles, and reviewers were looking at a coarse copy of the real geometry.Verification · Agent failure · 1 report66

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