Made a macropad! Did not expect to suffer so much. I genuinely think engineering is just a measure of how many small problems you can tolerate before you combust. This took wayy more than 2.5 hours I just did not know how to use either Lapse or Hackatime and I suffered quite a lot off camera.
PCB wasn’t that bad. I still have no idea how KiCad does any sort of positioning (from where in the object is the position calculated?? why is it so different across objects?? why does align just never work???), and it’s also deeply wonky switching back and forth from KiCad to Altium for different projects. It’s really nice not having to worry about any complications (signal processing, hunting down or making 3D models, etc) with wiring for once.
CAD went alright! I feel like you notice a lot of fun quality of life features that Fusion is missing when you start doing CAD for a bit. I’d love to be able to group objects or parts of a sketch and have them behave the same way. I’d love to have an easy way to find the midpoint or centers in a sketch. I’d love a way to align objects. oh well !
First time using QMK! Took a while to install and learn. I think I genuinely spent an hour scrolling through documentation. I imagine I’ll have to do some more wrangling when I flash it.
Finally done! I can finally sleep.
Comments 6
this was funny to read. hardware does feel like this at times man
In a sketch, there is a Midpoint constraint (triangle icon) and if you hover near the middle of a line when making a point or line, it will snap to the midpoint and show the triangle.
Joints may be what you want for aligning objects and there is a new Constrain Components command that I don’t fully understand yet.
I wish there was a way to group objects, but I don’t know of one. Hope this helps if you make anything else in Fusion!
Wanted to learn the pcb layout designing, but could find time, loved your design bro
Engineering in a nutshell. Awesome macropad! I tried to make one but I couldn’t figure out how Kicad works…
Same. Alignment doesn’t work; they seem to snap to different grids! And how did you get past the missing footprints?
Y’all i just had a question is anybody getting stardust at all?
Sign in to join the conversation.