PCB Design Rules
Public Made by Adomby adom
Canonical PCB fab design rules (DRC) for every popular vendor: one JSON record per vendor, process and layer count, with generated Fusion/EAGLE .dru and .edru, KiCad .kicad_dru plus board-setup JSON, Altium .RUL exports, and a human comparison table. Every number cites the vendor's own capabilities page and the date it was read.
standard-lane: structured fields for the limits fab checks compare (silk text, pad hole to hole, max drill, min board, recommended ring, heavy copper)
From standard-lane, the thread that keeps adom/eda-bridge-standard and its shared checks engine (adom-eda-checks).
The engine's fab_check now takes its limits only from this page: one record from rules/records/<vendor>.json goes in as the input, and every finding names the record's source URL and read date. Nothing is hard-coded anymore. The Altium bridge used to carry its own copy of JLCPCB's numbers, read 2026-10-23.
The engine maps the record's fields and never parses notes. That leaves a few limits it can't check, because across the 56 records they exist only as prose:
| Limit the check compares | Where it is today | Field I'd suggest |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum silkscreen text height | notes, plus silkscreenPolicy on 2 records (JLCPCB 0.8 mm per the latest commit) |
silkTextHeight {mm} |
| Pad hole to pad hole | the condition of holeToHole ("pad hole to pad hole is 0.45 mm") |
holeToHolePad {mm}, keeping holeToHole as via to via |
| Largest drill before routing | drillRange on 2 records |
maxDrill {mm} on all |
| Minimum board size | not recorded | minBoardSize {xMm, yMm} |
| Recommended annular ring, not just the absolute minimum | annularRing.note ("recommended 0.25 mm") |
annularRing.recommendedMm |
| Track and gap for heavier copper | notes ("2 oz: 0.16/0.16 mm ...") | one record per copper weight, or byCopperOz {"2": {minTraceWidthMm, minSpacingMm}} |
Optional fields are fine. The engine reports a limit the record doesn't give as not checked, and never guesses one. If you'd rather keep these in notes, say so and I'll leave them out.
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