WireViz VS skidl

If you don't mind my asking, what aspects of "acceptable layout" is usually the first to get busted?

I'm extremely excited about using WireViz[1] to automate wiring harness diagram creation, and if I can, I'd like to know the speedbumps before I hit them. I'm thinkin generous linking between diagrams will be one path.

[1] Project:: https://github.com/wireviz/WireViz SandboxP:: https://kroki.io/#try [select Diagram>WireViz]

Like WireViz?

WireViz is nice for generating manufacturing files for wiring looms, but you might want to use something else for descriptive documentation diagrams

WireViz, Easily document cables and wiring harnesses WireViz is a little tool very handy to document your cabling and get beautiful visual from it.

I found that wireviz does have multicolour support, dashed and stripes but maybe not the angled one we'd need for earth lead in Australia (iec also). Diagrammatically it should look like a barbers pole. yellow and green

Great question! We hope we have a few good reasons.

This iteration of the project actually came after first working with and then modifying another awesome project called SKiDL (https://github.com/devbisme/skidl).

It's based on Python - but we found that because since it's procedural, turing complete and has a rich eco-system - people use to that and there aren't standard composable ways of designing things. Instead of describing your board, you (practically) write a script that generates your board. It entangles your targets with your source-code and can make it difficult to understand the ultimate outcome of what you've written.

Additionally, since it's a potentially very long program, it was hard to write good language support around (a language server for VSCode, a schematic visualiser etc...) that were snappy, responsive and lent to examining modules as well as the whole program.

There's a few operators and first-class language features we wanted as well, like units and tolerances (3.3V +/- 100mV) that just aren't the same when embedded in a string, or class init method.

there is skidl for schematics, but yeah shit was hand drawn before GUIs.

Further, there are many python libraries etc which can be used to design electrical circuits using code: https://github.com/devbisme/skidl

I'd like to see documentation on your workflow. You can also post it on https://github.com/devbisme/skidl/discussions.

There is a generate_pcb() function in SKiDL that will output a kicad_pcb file that can be directly opened using PCBNEW (no need to generate the intermediate netlist file). That function uses HierPlace to group the parts based on their hierarchical organization. That would be a good place to inject some autoplacement if you get it figured out.

If others are interested in this and wireviz they might also like to know about https://github.com/devbisme/skidl. Used to make schematic specification in python.

Kinda off topic, but there's this project called skidl https://github.com/devbisme/skidl allowing you to create electrical schematics using Python. It seems to council your two interests, maybe for a fun side showoff project.

Take a look at this SKiDL discussion forums on GitHub: https://github.com/xesscorp/skidl/discussions/129

SKiDL (circuit design library) does this to a very large extent...

https://github.com/xesscorp/skidl