CuFlow ("Copper Flow") is an experimental procedural PCB layout program.
It's a Python module that, given a description of a board, generates all the outputs for a PCB:
- Gerbers
- drill file
- BOM
- PnP definitions
- POVRay renderings
- SVGs for laser cut mockups
The Gameduino 3X Dazzler was designed with CuFlow.
To generate the Dazzler board:
python dazzler.py
To generate the Arduino-Dazzler interface board:
python arduino_dazzler.py
To fetch the STEP and WRL models for every LCSC code in a generated BOM:
python fetch_bom_models.py spiq_a-bom.csv
Models are deduplicated by LCSC part number and written to assets/step/, for
example assets/step/C25100.step and assets/step/C25100.wrl. Existing model
pairs are left untouched unless --overwrite is supplied. The command keeps
successful downloads and exits nonzero if any BOM entry has no available model.
It also records EasyEDA's footprint transforms in assets/step/models.json.
To refresh the browser-ready mesh cache after fetching models:
npm --prefix webviewer run convert:models
STL assets can be converted to the same browser-ready mesh format. STL has no standard units or material data, so the converter assumes millimetres and accepts an optional RGB color:
node webviewer/convert-stl.js input.stl output.mesh.json [RRGGBB]
For the SPIQ LCD bezel:
npm --prefix webviewer run convert:bezel
Some notes on the theory and the practice:
