footprinter (tscircuit) errors

3 recurring problems engineers report in footprinter (tscircuit), ranked by impact.

#170 by errors trackedECAD

Recurring footprinter (tscircuit) errors, by impact

  1. 1fp().d2pak(5), .to252(5) and .to263(5) quietly fell back to three pads while the equivalent string aliases emitted six, dropping leads and giving the tab the wrong pad number, which the author says "can produce incorrect PCB connectivity".ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report66
  2. 2The SOT-723 footprint put pads in the right places with pins 1 and 3 swapped, against KiCad's SOT-723, the Toshiba datasheet and the generator's own SOT-23 family.ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report66
  3. 3Two earlier PRs for a horizontal TO-220 footprint got the geometry wrong, one omitting the mounting hole and courtyard and one using a plated mounting hole, so the library shipped incorrect footprints until this correction.ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report66

How it fails

  1. Agent failure3

Engineering tools that address these errors

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