Major improvements in typeCAD PCB layout

Version 0.1.2 of typeCAD was just released with major layout improvements. Before there were significant limitations on what was possible with it. Before, when a layout was applied, it moved all the components to whatever location specified in the typeCAD code. This worked well enough as an MVP, but wasn’t a great developer experience.

Now with this new release, that has been fixed. To keep the components from moving around, they just need to be given a UUID:

this.C1 = new Capacitor({ value: '10uF', uuid: '6d588378-32ea-4e85-a943-d9b373a3d454' });

There are several VS Code extensions that can help with the generation. Here’s one.

Other improvements

There were also improvements in BOM generation. Fields can be customized in typeCAD code.