FOSS Trace Width Calculator in C using both IPC2221 and IPC2152

[ymich]

Hi everyone. This is my first post here, and it seems like a really nice community! In the past year I've been making this project because I was very interested in how trace widths are calculated, I found it kind of silly that at my work we (for some reason) trust online websites for trace width calculations. Here is the link to the project repository.

https://github.com/ymich9963/twc

In the repo I talk about the features, motivation, and example usage of the project. To install for Windows it's a simple copy-paste command in a PowerShell terminal with Admin rights. Please let me know your thoughts, improvements, or any issues! Thanks.

[Doctorandus_P]

I quite like the track width calculator in KiCad's "calculator tools". It also runs on my linux box.

[ymich]

I quite like the track width calculator in KiCad's "calculator tools". It also runs on my linux box.

Yeah builds for different OSs is something I didn't really want to do at the very start. If you've got Make installed you could always just build it from source.

The KiCAD calculator is IPC-2221 and not the new IPC-2152, which as I point out in the repo, all the different calculators for it I could find online have a different implementation. One of the reasons why I made this project is so that the community can have a discussion around the IPC-2152 because not much info about it exists online.

[eugene]

I don't have any Windows machines, but I was able to compile it on my Linux box after modifying the Makefile so that it uses gcc instead of clang and adding -lm to the end of CFLAGS.

At this point I cannot comment much other than to say that it seems to work.

[ymich]

I don't have any Windows machines, but I was able to compile it on my Linux box after modifying the Makefile so that it uses gcc instead of clang and adding -lm to the end of CFLAGS.

At this point I cannot comment much other than to say that it seems to work.

That's definitely a good sign!