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Curious what helper apps you're using, I've always set my own DRC rules but have been mostly on the R&D side so it wasn't as critical


It's been a while since I moved up the stack to frontend development so I don't remember most of them but the primary one was the Saturn PCB toolkit [1]. There was one that we used in place of Saturn PCB toolkit that was far easier to automate but I can't find it now. I wrote lots of custom scripts to turn Excel formulas into Altium rules and there were quite a few crappy WinForm apps from fabs.

Edit: Nowadays I only do electronics for personal projects and since I stick to three fabs (a local one one I've got a relationship with and two Chinese specials), I've just got a few manually created DRC templates per fab, # of layers, and max signal speed with a few templates just for RF that I got from a mentor.

[1] https://saturnpcb.com/pcb_toolkit/




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