TraceMaker (DingoOz) errors

8 recurring problems engineers report in TraceMaker (DingoOz), ranked by impact.

#58 by errors trackedECAD

Recurring TraceMaker (DingoOz) errors, by impact

  1. 1On a 1,194-connection four-layer PoE board, GND and +54V zones were written without fills so the router saw no plane and laid 1,773 mm of tracks instead (some on the other net's plane layer), and it ignored JLCPCB's 0.254 mm hole-to-copper rule. KiCad caught 14 errors.ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report74
  2. 2The log said USB D+ was tuned to 78.44 ps. The written board measured 70.56 ps against D-'s 79.25 ps, way past a 0.5 ps skew rule. The winning variant ended its search one connection short of its best state, so the best state went out as snapshotted, never tuned, and the tuning lines in the log came from other variants.ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report74
  3. 3--si-rules marked the unused D+/D- pins on a charge-only USB-C socket as four critical USB nets, each a single-pad net. Fix skips nets with fewer than two pads.ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report66
  4. 4A JLCPCB conditional rule made pair routing 55 percent slower, stuck near 116 connections.ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report66
  5. 5A third-party router's own DRC reported 22,362 clearance problems on a board where KiCad reported none, and reaching parity took matching KiCad 10.0.6 rule by rule, 239 of 239.ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report66
  6. 6Adds repair windows because a partly routed board left pins walled in and the only other option was a full reroute.ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report66
  7. 7KiCad's physical_clearance rule forbids vias in their own net's pads. "TraceMaker did not evaluate the rule anywhere, and its routes broke it," giving 25 via_not_in_pad errors on a test board. Now 0. Zone fills still don't apply the rule.ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report66
  8. 8The router uses only board minimums for hole-to-hole and copper-to-edge, ignoring custom rules, so it places vias KiCad's DRC then flags, with 0.5 mm required against a 0.25 mm minimum, and rules using A.Net are skipped with a warning.ECAD · Agent failure · 1 report66

How it fails

  1. Agent failure8

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