Seve - integrating flex and assembly stuff

cant wait, currently struggling with doing an fpc in tscircuit

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working on an EMR drawing tablet, currently i just think its really hard to think about 3d in tscircuit, like the top most useful things would be folding done properly so its not so limited (i might be using it wrong, some examples in the docs would be great even if simple), some kind of 3d stackup of the pcbs, not sure if we even need a proper cad kernel just something simple with collision checks with the 3d models of placed parts

btw, its very painful to open a GUI tool after getting used to tscircuit, great job 😄

amazing yea feel free to send references of assemblies etc. 3d support is brand new, we have a boolean kernel (manifold) that is nice and fast/lightweight and capable of collisions and many other things

we are doing a lot of assembly related stuff right now!

after some trial and error, i find that working with enclosure + fpc with folding + pcb + other 3d components is really good if you ask opus 5.5 for svgs of the assembly, i think it also helps the AI think about the whole device a lot better and its also easier to prompt what you want and how done looking at 2d crossections

What is generating the flex pcb for you? You’re not using the builtin pcbbend or anything yet right

yeah i tried to use pcbbend and the built in stuff but it didnt work out, so right now i use <board material="flex" routingDisabled>, <trace pcbPath> and <pcbtrace>, with custom coverlay and stiffner gerber stuff because <pcbstiffener> also didnt work, mostly AI written for my usecase

but what got me the biggest improvement is the svg stuff (these models are trained on svgs a lot i guess), since then everything is smooth sailing even if tscircuit doesnt have what i need exactly

can you file an issue with your AI saying what it ran into, i'd love to fix the bend issues, they are extremely new

likewise for stiffener

you can file it to github.com/tscircuit/tscircuit

https://github.com/tscircuit/tscircuit/issues/5277

hopefully its useful

tyty

yea no this is fantastic, these are all very valid

thank you!

we discuss flex support and 3d stuff in the <#1526692261247586464> channel a lot fwiw, i will try to knock out some of these today

looking forward to it thanks 😄