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janikandClaude Fable 5 b806d31a9a Advertise DC resistance only; frame f>0 as a skin-only estimate
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Details 
Skin resistance is a small fraction of real AC impedance (proximity
and inductance dominate), so AC must not appear in the descriptions.
README headline, PCM/plugin metadata, pyproject, dialog note, CLI
help and the summary label now all say: skin-only lower bound on the
resistance rise, not an AC impedance simulation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-07-22 16:35:30 +07:00
janikandClaude Fable 5 56e2f9c81a Include the net's traces as conductors alongside zone fills 
Straight tracks become capsule outline polygons (rectangle +
semicircular caps), arc tracks annular bands with end caps, both
tessellated to the same sagitta tolerance as zone-fill arcs; they merge
into the per-layer copper next to the fills, so rasterization, via
stitching, the solver and the plots handle them unchanged. Trace-only
layers and trace-only nets now qualify as candidates. Dialog checkbox
(on by default, INCLUDE_TRACKS) toggles them per run.

Hole-less polygons (every track outline) now paint the layer mask
directly instead of allocating a full-frame temporary each.

Tests: exact N-cell chain on a rasterized capsule, analytic annular-
sector convergence for an arc trace, capsule/arc-band outline geometry
invariants, collinear-arc degradation, and fill+trace union solve.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
 2026-07-15 15:37:51 +07:00
janikandClaude Fable 5 e7627352c1 Fix solver correctness and input-validation issues from code review 
- 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>
 2026-07-15 14:54:45 +07:00
janikandClaude Fable 5 06c62e04f8 Initial import: KiCad zone resistance plugin 
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>
 2026-07-14 17:22:00 +07:00