hardware-design-skill (zsx3896926) errors

5 recurring problems engineers report in hardware-design-skill (zsx3896926), ranked by impact.

#95 by errors trackedECAD

Recurring hardware-design-skill (zsx3896926) errors, by impact

  1. 1Offline schematic tools said ready, fits and verified 24 of 24, but on the real EasyEDA Pro run 170 of 173 apply steps passed, the strict schematic gate failed at step 171, save and instance-preservation checks never ran, and readback found capacitor C5's label sitting on a net marker.ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report74
  2. 2The EasyEDA agent reported connections it never made: a wire snapped to grid and never touched off-grid pins, an unknown flag silently turned sch clear into a no-op, and the connector queue stalled.ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report74
  3. 3The PCB check gate only looked at file shape, so a placement-check file (or one with an empty or contradictory summary) could stand in for the real DFM report and pass.ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report74
  4. 4An AI schematic skill could still return results with missing geometry and unreadable labels and module placement; the fix adds a strict layout check that fails on incomplete coverage, while electrical_verified and visual_verified stay false and the author says plainly that no real engineering acceptance is claimed.ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report66
  5. 5The PCB gate found its DFM check report by filename glob, so a newer placement report was picked as the DFM report and blocked the gate.ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report66

How it fails

  1. Agent failure5

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