Electronic Design
Schematic to
fabricated board
A conversation on one side, the board on the other. Four views of the same design, changing together as you work.
Chat on the right, board on the left
Board outline placed. I have put the regulator and the USB-C connector down and routed power. Two nets still need attention.
Move the connector 4mm left so it clears the enclosure.
Moved. Re-routed 6 nets, clearance now 0.8mm.
Four views, one design
Switch between them at any point. They are not exported copies — they are the same design seen four ways.
Schematic
The logical circuit — components and the nets between them. Describe what you want and watch it appear, or edit it directly.
Layout
Components placed on the board outline, with the physical constraints that matter: keep-outs, clearances, connector positions.
Routing
Copper traces between pads. Change a placement and the affected nets are re-routed rather than silently broken.
3D PCB
The finished board as a solid object — the view that tells you whether it will actually fit where it has to go.
What the assistant does
Parts and nets
Pick components, wire them up, and check the result against the rules — supply voltage, current limits, decoupling — as you go rather than at the end.
Placement and routing
Place by constraint rather than by eye: keep-outs, clearances, connector edges, and the mechanical outline it has to fit inside.
Design rules
Trace width, spacing, via sizes, and layer stack are checked continuously, so a board that violates your fab's rules is flagged while you are still editing it.
Manufacturing output
Gerbers, drills, and a bill of materials when the design is ready — generated from the same design, not re-derived from an export.
Where this is
The electronic tool is in development. It handles straightforward circuits today and is not yet at the point where we would put it in front of production work — the design rules and the routing need to be far more reliable before that.
It is the second of the three disciplines we are building, and it is the one that makes the shared model worth having: a board that knows where the enclosure is, and an enclosure that knows what is on the board.
The board does not exist on its own — it has to fit inside something.
Mechanical Design