Bounce Puller PCB Design Guide
2:39
Responding to user's confirmation.
Clarifying response to tool guidelines.
Generating autopilot commands.
Aligning passive components and mounting holes.
Creating autopilot commands for PCB layout.
Preparing autopilot commands and summaries.
Finalizing autopilot commands.
Accessing knowledge base.
Preparing autopilot commands.
- Apply routing rules
- Set minimum trace width to 0.152 mm (6 mil).
- Set preferred trace width to 0.254 mm (10 mil).
- Set minimum clearance to 0.20 mm.
- Set via drill to 0.30 mm and via pad to 0.60 mm.
- Create a POWER net class and assign nets VBUS, BAT, VIN, and 3V3 to width 0.254 mm (10 mil).
- Add ground pours
- Create top and bottom copper polygons covering the whole board and assign them to net GND.
- Set polygon clearance to 0.25 mm and enable thermal reliefs.
- Re-pour both polygons.
- Add stitching vias (avoid keep-outs)
- Place a GND stitching via fence 0.5–0.8 mm inboard from the PCB edge with 3.0 mm spacing around the full perimeter.
- Use via drill 0.30 mm, pad 0.60 mm, connected to GND.
- Do NOT place any vias inside:
- Pull-pin keep-out (center 17.75, 7.50; size 3.5 × 8.0 mm).
- Antenna band keep-out (Y = 10.0 to 15.0 mm).
- Mounting holes
- Add four non-plated mounting holes (NPTH) with 2.0 mm drill at:
- (1.0, 1.0), (18.5, 1.0), (18.5, 14.0), (1.0, 14.0).
- Apply a copper keep-out around each mounting hole on top and bottom copper and solder masks with at least 0.25 mm clearance.
- Verify and report
- Re-pour polygons.
- Run design checks and report any violations related to keep-outs, widths, clearances, or copper-to-edge spacing.
- Keep the antenna band copper-free on both layers (required by the ESP32 module guidance).
- Flux runs DRC continuously; use the Review tab to confirm clearances as you go.
- Keep ground return paths short and direct to avoid coupling noisy currents into sensitive nets; use the solid GND pours and stitching vias to provide a low-impedance return.
1:09
Reading docs about Where is Flux Autopilot in the PCB editor? How do I open it and paste a command to create keep-outs, set rules, and add stitching vias? Provide steps for accessing and using Autopilot in Flux.ai, including any keyboard shortcuts or UI locations..
Reading docs about How do I open Flux Autopilot (the AI command interface) in the PCB editor to paste commands? Where is it located and how do I run a command?.
Reading docs about How do I start an AI plan or Autopilot action in Flux? Where is the plan bar and how do I run a command or start execution?.
Searching for help tool results.
- Flux Documentation: https://docs.flux.ai/Introduction/the-flux-method
- Documentation Search Results: https://docs.flux.ai/?s={query}
- Flux User Community: https://www.flux.ai/p/slack-community
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