- adaptive: barrel links could attach to coarse leaves (up to 1 mm),
making the whole leaf equipotential and deleting the local spreading
resistance - via-field results read up to ~13% low. Barrel attachment
cells are now pinned into the keep-fine set before the quadtree is
built; the guard ring grades around them.
- skin/dialog: the decimal-comma rewrite turned '1,500' into 1.5, a
silent 1000x error in frequency, test current or cell size. Ambiguous
comma patterns (thousands separators, multiple commas, mixed with a
dot) now raise with a message; a real decimal comma ('1,5') still
parses.
- dialog: Selection.adaptive default now matches the documented
on-by-default; the adaptive accuracy claim is aligned to the measured
0.03% quoted in README and config.
- Refuse the uniform contact model when the fills form multiple
disconnected copper groups that each touch both terminals: the
prescribed injection split is ill-posed and the grounded system was
singular, silently returning garbage (e.g. negative gigaohms).
connected_restrict now reports the component count; a power-balance
backstop (SolverError) catches any other inconsistent solve.
- Connect via/pad barrels to the nearest fill copper within the pad
footprint (+1 cell) instead of only the exact center cell, so
thermal-relief spokes still stitch layers; barrels that reach fill on
fewer than two layers are warned about. ViaLink gains pad_nm
(extracted from the padstack, JSON-roundtripped).
- Validate dialog input on OK (layers, current > 0, cell > 0, parseable
frequency, extra Cu >= 0) with an inline error instead of silently
substituting defaults; parse_frequency raises on garbage; pipeline
rejects i_test <= 0; choose_cell_size rejects non-positive overrides.
- Warn when a contact part is dropped by the connectivity restriction;
floor instead of truncate in cell_of; correct the uniform-model
summary line; drop an unused variable; refresh plugin.json wording.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
DC/AC resistance, power dissipation, and via/injection-area currents of
copper zone fills. KiCad 10 IPC-API plugin (kicad-python/kipy):
multi-layer via-coupled FDM solver, multi-part terminals via User.1/User.2
marker layers, pads as contacts, uniform-injection and equipotential
contact models, per-foil skin effect, optional solder/copper buildup on
mask openings. 54-case test suite incl. exact analytic references.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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