[chbot] PCB sanity check

[Richard Jones]

Hi Robin,

I can take a look at your PCB later this week, but I'm not optimistic about
finding things for you. Having passed ERC and DRC your PCB will reflect
schematic errors faithfully, and I find that a good check is to fly around
the PCB in the 3d viewer, with as many parts fitted as possible. You get to
see how your silk screen will look top and bottom, some of the design
decisions can be subjective. Once you are happy with the 3d view you can do
a trial upload to see what the design looks like in your chosen supplier's
gerber viewer. If you have routing cuts for ac mains isolation etc I find
the suppliers online chats very helpful to confirm how they like odd things
to be specified. Hope that helps.

Good luck!

Richard Jones

On Sun, Sep 1, 2024 at 2:00 PM Robin Gilks <gb7ipd at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've 'finished' my weather station PCB but since it's my first effort with
> Kicad I'm looking for someone with experience of this software to do a
> sanity check on my work.
>
> I'm using the latest Kicad 8 (8.0.4) and have eliminated all ERC and DRC
> errors and warnings so I think I'm OK but who knows!! (some via positioning
> is a bit wobbly for example.
>
> The latest backup zip file is about 250k so not something I'm going to
> spam the list with but if there is a volunteer out there I can send
> directly.
>
> Cheers
>
> --
> Robin Gilks
>
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