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Re:Melting KiCad by conk on Saturday April 23, 2022 @02:06AM (#31131843)
Yeah because it’s so easy to verify creepage and clearance requirements with a bunch of squiggly lines all over the board… Add to that thermal properties and temp rise calculations. There’s a heck of a lot more to PCB design than just an “electrical reason”.
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Re:Melting KiCad by IshKebab on Saturday April 23, 2022 @11:13AM (#31134926)
Are you being sarcastic? I can't imagine why squiggly lines would make it harder for a computer to check clearance. They can definitely already handle it. They even showed examples in this post!

Similarly I don't see why thermal calculations would require a particular geometry. That would be a very strange way to do things.

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Re:Melting KiCad by nomel on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @05:26PM (#31173401)
> Similarly I don't see why thermal calculations would require a particular geometry

I imagine a curve could have more error, or require more time, with an FTDT simulation, compared to something grid like.

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