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I’m using Blender 🔶 and #geometrynodes to visualize clearance boundaries and highlight violations in high voltage PCB designs. The design in this video is a 65W USB-C PD charger using STMicroelectronics #ViperGaN. I’ve shown most of the net classes I created, with Blender I can also include not only...

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Guttural Prayer2 years ago

@Blender My first PCB software was Altium, you're bringing me many memories from time ago and mixing Blender + Altium is like, get out of my head hahah Great job.

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R3PL1C8R Drones2 years ago

@Blender Altium's 3D is basically eye-candy. You can't do anything useful with it. I'm glad you are integrating. It's cool, but not useful if you have to rebuild the entire board in Blender. If you integrate more tightly (export?), you have a very good chance of being acquired by Altium.

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Sam M2 years ago

Yes I'm trying to take advantage of Blender's 3D capability for electronics and PCB design. Right now it is still very a manual process to export designs from Altium into Blender. I've built a good library of Blender models for electronic components, so I no longer have to remodel everything, I just use the pick and place file to place all my components in Blender

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0xChiefMate2 years ago

@Blender impressive

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david eriksson2 years ago

@Blender hows the st compared to the new power integrations innoswitch 5?

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Cicero2 years ago

@Blender Some tool to design the planar transformer?

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Kairen1 year ago

@Blender Amazing

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Cicero1 year ago

@Blender Sam, I never found this video you talk about. Is it available?

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