pcbcraft (wdunn001) errors

3 recurring problems engineers report in pcbcraft (wdunn001), ranked by impact.

#189 by errors trackedECAD

Recurring pcbcraft (wdunn001) errors, by impact

  1. 1A carrier board imported from a netlist has 44 nets, 15 parts and 285 routed tracks, and the schematic shows 0 wires and 0 labels. ERC says nothing, so a reader who opens the project and reads the schematic is told the board is unwired.ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report66
  2. 2Reading exports back with a reference parser showed bottom copper, mask, paste and silk mirrored in x while drill files weren't. Boards with inner layers shipped each inner copper layer twice, one copy flipped in y and stamped with the wall-clock date.ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report66
  3. 3Some CAD part libraries forbid automated access, so the same PCB tool needs a manual drop zone with a license note. The default note reads 'Added by hand from a download; check the provider's terms.' Any agent that wants to place parts hits the same wall: the library sources that matter most cannot be fetched.ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report66

How it fails

  1. Agent failure3

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