[duskwuff]

> always wondered why there wasn’t a nocode for hardware that outputs a gerber.

Because hardware tends to be informed by messy physical factors which are hard to represent programmatically.

Think along the lines of "the cables are coming from this side of the board", or "buttons need to be reachable by fingers", or "if you're building a weather station, the temperature sensor should be far away from components that generate heat".

[napowderly]

For sure, there will always be some 'user' type requirements that we need to build a way to input, for starters it will be something like a lock file with component positions of things you need in a particular spot. I see alot of value in automating things you just dont care about, particularly if 'sensible' rules can be applied. For example if the tool could automatically determine trace widths, not just at a net level, but for each link based on how hot you were happy for it to get and what loads it would see.