circuit-json-to-altium (tscircuit) errors

3 recurring problems engineers report in circuit-json-to-altium (tscircuit), ranked by impact.

#160 by errors trackedECAD

Recurring circuit-json-to-altium (tscircuit) errors, by impact

  1. 1A 2 x 1.6 mm pad with a 0.6 mm drill offset 0.4/0.2 mm exports to a PcbDoc that is byte-identical to the zero-offset version. The drill comes out centred, and the binary writer cannot store per-layer hole offsets yet.ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report66
  2. 2SMT pads with a 0.3 mm solder mask margin export the same PCB file whether the pad is covered or exposed, so covered and exposed pads are indistinguishable in the Altium export. Both were checked with an altiumts render, not native Altium.ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report66
  3. 3The exporter hard-coded every via to TOP-BOTTOM, so an inner-layer via became a through via. Standalone vias lost their GND net, and vias inside a trace route disappeared.ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report66

How it fails

  1. Agent failure3

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