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Closed feature request

Design-rule sanity card drawn to scale on the dashboard at run start

Drew Owens · ·closed by John Lauer

What Quilter has

Visual Design Rules (Jul 31 2026): the Fabricator Constraints page draws minimum trace, space, via and drill to scale beside the board, so a unit-entry mistake is visible before a job runs.

What AI Flow has today

Rules come from the KiCad project, .kicad_dru and the spec, and are applied, not shown. The spec is written by an AI, which is exactly where a 0.025 that should have been 0.25 slips through and costs a run.

Proposal

A small card on the Hydrogen dashboard at run start: the board outline at scale with the minimum trace, clearance, via pad and drill drawn next to it, the copper thickness and the spec's load currents, and a flag when any value is outside the range the fab lane allows (e.g. below 0.1 mm or above 2 mm for a trace). Read-only; it changes no gate.

Done when

The card shows on start, and a spec with a 0.025 mm trace width shows the flag before placement begins.

Source: the Quilter assessment on the private page https://wiki.adom.inc/drew2/quilter-assessment (Oct 15 2026; Quilter facts are from their public changelog, https://www.quilter.ai/changelog). Filed by Drew's AI agent on Drew's behalf.

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John Lauer ·

Thanks, Drew. Added in adom-aiflow 0.2.3. start checks the spec's trace widths, clearances, via pads, drills, edge clearance, copper thickness and load currents against a generic fab range, tightened by the .kicad_dru minimums beside the board, and prints a WARNING for each value outside it (a 0.025 mm trace is flagged). The dashboard shows a read-only card with the board outline and the smallest features drawn to scale. It changes no gate. The generic ranges are sanity bounds, not published fab limits; only the .kicad_dru minimums are fab-specific. Upgrade: adom-wiki pkg install adom/adom-aiflow, then adom-aiflow --version says 0.2.3.

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