AGBoard - PCBEditor

About AGBoard - PCBEditor

- A guided tour on first launch, with a real board already open. A CC0-licensed STM32 breakout is loaded so there is something to look at before you choose a file, and each tip points at the control it describes, which stays usable as you go. The demo does not count against the free openings. - Open KiCad schematics (.kicad_sch). Symbols, wires, buses and their entries, junctions, net labels, references, values and footprints, with hierarchical sheets followed and laid out side by side. It arrives as separate layers you can hide, and every field is drawn at the angle and alignment the file asks for. Symbol libraries (.kicad_sym) and drawing sheets (.kicad_wks) open too. - Schematic nets are the nets KiCad reports. Across 31 of KiCad's own public designs, all 890 named nets match its netlist exactly: a bus names the nets inside it, a net crossing sheets takes the name it has nearest the root, and two power symbols on one wire are one rail. Searching a net finds the pins that carry it, and lights the bus a signal travels along. - Convert a board into another format. Whatever it was opened as, a design can now be written out as ODB++, IPC-2581 or DXF from the Save menu. When the destination cannot carry everything, the app says so first — then offers to export anyway, naming what it left out. - 3D: internal cutouts, islands, holes and routed slots remove real substrate. Supported declared spans limit blind and buried holes. Copper aperture voids no longer invent drills; dark/clear order and negative mask are respected. - 3D: stated thickness and usable KiCad/IPC-2581 stack depths are used; hiding layers keeps their depth. Approximations are identified. Documentation stays off the copper, and bodies use their stated size and height, not keep-outs. - 3D: turn with one finger, move with two, and move while pinching to zoom. Idle redraws stop; obsolete scene builds are cancelled without overlapping. Scene changes wait until gestures end. - Edit a shape that is really several. An ODB++ pad can be one symbol holding six openings, and it could only be selected or moved whole. The parts button takes it apart — move, resize or delete a piece — and Finish puts it back as one object, in its own place in the drawing order. The action bar also names the symbol it came from. - The selection outline follows the shape instead of boxing it, and the width and height you edit are the shape's own, its angle shown beside them: a pad turned 30° no longer reports the size of the box around it. - Pads drawn approximately are now drawn as specified: chamfered corners, custom shapes built from arcs and lines, mask and paste openings grown by the stated clearance, and merged where the board asks for a minimum web. - Altium and Eagle: a through-hole pad now appears on every copper layer, as it does on the board. One board's Gerber export was missing 46 lands, and tracing a net stopped at every through-hole pin. Eagle inner layers are read too, where a four-layer board used to lose them silently. - Text written on the board-outline layer is no longer read as part of the edge — it cost one published board its ODB++ export. Drill files gained the same care: .xnc opens like any other drill program, and every number keeps its decimal point, so no CAM tool reads -70 mm as -0.07 mm. - Check a solder-paste stencil against IPC-7525C: each opening's area and aspect ratios, the ones below the limit listed and lit up on the board, the report as CSV or PDF. Choose the stencil layer, state the foil — no file carries it — and draw step zones over the board. Declared text, legend and fiducials are left out; tap any other artwork to leave it out. - Text is drawn as the design drew it: KiCad text boxes, tables, knockout and italic text, dashed lines and curves, matched to KiCad 8, 9 and 10's own plots, and Altium text placed as KiCad imports it. Exports keep text marked as text.

App privacy

The developer, GUILLAUME PIERRE AGNETTI, reported these privacy practices to Apple.