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LibreSolar / mppt-2420-lc

Hackable and open source MPPT solar charge controller
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DRC Errors? #31

Closed johnfwhitmore closed 5 years ago

johnfwhitmore commented 6 years ago

I recently created an issue with part of the BMS-5 with regard to Kicad DRC errors on the board. I'm having a similar issue with this MPPT board, just not as many but it does create a warning when I go to order the board on jlcpcb:

screenshot from 2018-10-17 10-18-08

It's possibly just a warning but thought I'd better raise it?

johnfwhitmore commented 6 years ago

You can close this I think. There were two DRC errors which were to do with tracks being close to pads. I re-laid those out, but still encountered the same problem trying to order the board.

A bit of trial and error and I've got the order accepted without issue. It appears to be that in the plot Gerber options screen there is a section of "Gerber Options" including "Include extended (X2) attributes" I unchecked all the selected options in that section of the GUI and the order was fine.

The "Plot Options" are obviously stored with the Kicad project and the selected options are a problem in some cases, including my problem with an SVG plot on the BMS project. I've never played with those options before so this is down to my own ignorance of the Gerber format. Anyhow no extended options.

Boards ordered up so it'll be a few weeks before I receive them.