Eli Hughes
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if you are using someone else's garbage saas ai design review product, stop... all of if it is waste of time and i'll give you something better for free that runs with whatever analysis tools you want. altium-cruncher 2026.6.7 public release kicad-cruncher 2026.6.7 public release altium-cruncher is cli tool built on the altium-monkey library. (kicad-cruncher is built on kicad-monkey) here we show the "design_review" (dr) command dr converts an altium project into a simple graph-spatial-topological format specifical design for llm's - json netlist with links with detail indexes into the schematic SVG elements/groups - enriched pcb SVG heavily decorated with links back to the the json graph - all schematic notes in json form - SVG schematic/pcb elements are heirachically grouped w/ tags for the llm to build its own internal map of subcircuits with linkage to copper artwork subsections. - full part parameter linkage - an .md with a guide for codex/claude on how to step through the eviscerated project. - bonus: schdoc and pcbdoc in a raw json serialized format (what altium uses internally but doesnt give you from teh gui). this format is the literal json form of the altium format essentially all of the resolved schematic graph, physical topology, layer stack information and metadata to do make best use of current frontier and local llm techbology it actually was an accidental discovery. better than a netlist. no vendor lock-in. gives you some help without pretending its 100% . no need to waste tokens on full image processing,etc. this dataset works better, is simpler, and compatible with local llms. can help save some time and give you another set of eyes before a release. works on win/mac/linux gratis!
Eli Hughes15,836 views • 12 days ago
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