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by caydenpiercehax 1123 days ago
Thanks for the feedback. There's definitely a lot more that goes into a serious design. I purposefully chose a simpler design to experiment with automating the easy but repetitive stuff.

To address a few points and how software-defined electronics actually does make sense for it:

> critical placement You can use a `place` command to exactly place things wherever you want.

> mechanical Use board outline functions, `place` commands, arbitrary shapes, 3D component shapes, etc. to meet these needs. You can export a STP and send to your mech team for validation.

> supply-chain Parametric search query function allow designers to specify only as much information as they need about a component (e.g. 0402 10k, but not MPN) and the system can pick the best component at compile time that is in stock with necessary quantity available.