It's time for an update on my progress - plenty of distractions but I've sat down and gone through this again.
Last week I generated some Gerbers and CPL/BOM and put them into the JLCPCB website.
I had to change a few parts in order to fit inside the extended part budget, but overall it was going pretty easily. Until...
The parts don't line up. At all.
I tried manually offsetting some parts, but that didn't work well -- I eventually got a few parts lined up but then the offset for some parts was off in different ways.
Here's what I'm seeing:
I uploaded Damien's gerbers, BOM, and CPL to see what a working solution looked like. This looks a little weird too, but at least the parts line up (some are rotated wrong).
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I also generated gerbers from Damien's .brd and .sch v6 files, this matches his gerbers but looks different in the viewer:
Can anyone with Designspark/JLC experience weigh in here? I'm at my wits' end here. I've been looking at everything; checking the CPL format, looking inside the gerber files themselves, whatever I know how to do.
I suspect something weird due to the component libraries I am missing; Damien, is there any chance you could share your Designspark libraries? I know you swore off any Tesla stuff before you retired to Lanzarote, but I'm stuck.
I would be working on the LDU board but if I don't even know how to get outputs from here, it makes no sense to sink more useless work.
-Isaac