PCB Design for Smart Glasses
Thought for 5 sec
Correct: for the PCB board outline, Flux needs a single closed outer contour. It generally won’t use an SVG icon with multiple paths/holes as the board shape directly.
For glasses, that means:
- ✅ Use the SVG outer perimeter as the PCB outline.
- ❌ Don’t expect the lens openings / holes inside the glasses icon to automatically become board cutouts.
- ✅ Add lens openings separately as mechanical cutouts / routed slots if Flux supports them in your layout flow, or represent them later for fabrication.
- ✅ Best SVG format: one flattened filled path for the outside edge, no groups, no strokes, no masks, no transforms.
So the workflow is usually:
- Export only the outside silhouette of the glasses frame as one closed path.
- Apply that as the PCB board outline.
- Add any internal holes/cutouts separately as mechanical features.
For now, if you want the front of a glasses frame as the PCB, make the board outline the solid glasses-front outer shape, then treat the lens openings as separate cutouts rather than part of the SVG board-shape path.
Thought for 4 sec
I’ll re-check the updated
GlassesSVG asset flags and the active layout board-shape/asset rules to see what is still preventing it from showing.Worked for 57 sec
The fixed SVG was re-uploaded as a thumbnail/default asset again, so it still wasn’t eligible as a PCB board shape. I’ve now changed it to
isPcbBoardShape=true, but the active board outline is still rectangle — the board shape does not automatically switch just because the asset exists.Why it still may not appear:
- The asset exists, but the PCB outline is still set to
rectangle. - Flux’s board-shape rule needs the actual closed SVG path data, not just the asset name.
- If you used an “asset” layout rule, that creates/controls a visual asset reference, not necessarily the manufactured PCB outline.
What to do next:
- Open the SVG file in a text editor.
- Copy the outer path’s
d="M ... Z"value. - Paste that path here.
- I’ll apply it directly as the board outline.
Apply outline and verify
Paste SVG path
Explain SVG path
Check current asset
Run layout review
Waiting for input
