[peteforde]

The overt hostility in this thread really bums me out!

I came to say that this looks amazing and came at the most absurdly perfect time, because I was literally habitually skimming HN before settling in to manually reverse engineer a PCB.

I hope this works well, because it's an extraordinarily useful tool if so.

[pcbtracer]

PCB Tracer has a growing set of happy users. I think you will discover why, once you give it a try. The software has hundreds of convenient features and its active development continues. I've been building PCB Tracer mainly for fun and learning. It's certainly been a fun project! Hope you give it a try soon, find it useful and enjoy using it. -Phil

[peteforde]

I don't regret getting downvoted to talk about how excited I am for PCB Tracer one bit. It's awesome - I've spent the past day pretty much doing nothing but tracing a fairly complex (for me) board.

I do have some feedback, and I've found some bugs. I gave up on your photo manipulation tools and just did manual keystone perspective tweaks in my photo editor. I would happily use your app to do it if it worked, but the keystone thing was super broken for me; the sanest way to make this work would be to have the user drop 4 points on each side and just do it; all of the fussy nudge/scale stuff is really just a half step towards point-based keystones.

Early on I had some pretty serious bugs that emerged when I was jumping between magnification levels. At one point all of my objects were unceremoniously moved off where I'd placed them to whitespace outside of the photo. That sucked. Now I save frequently and only change magnification when I'm in select mode.

I also find that the "fit canvas to window area" is a bit broken when moving between full and partial sized browser windows in Brave on Windows.

However, the biggest bug or behaviour I can't quite figure out is that when I switch to the back view it doesn't seem to reverse the position of the dots and objects placed. I am probably doing it wrong, but still: my strongest feedback currently is that switching sides is awkward at best and slightly broken at worst.

All of that said... I love it! I am thrilled with it. You've made something totally amazing in a short time.

[joemi]

I don't think I've seen much of what I'd call overt hostility. But there do seem to be a lot of firefox users commenting about not being able to use this. I don't think there'd be as many if the site wasn't saying that Firefox isn't supported because it doesn't support access to the local file system for uploads and downloads. But Firefox does indeed support that, just not via whatever API they're using.

[peteforde]

It's just super weird to get downvoted multiple times for saying that I'm excited about something. I guess we won't call that hostility.

The funny thing is that for all of the people complaining about granting filesystem access, it actually won't allow you to select sensitive paths; no system folders, no drive roots.

[MadnessASAP]

I personally mostly enjoyed using https://pcb.etaras.com/studio.html

The big feature for me was being able to have multiple photos of the PCB side by side with perspective corrections so locations were correlated across the board.