JLC puts AI-assisted board design in files you can read, review, and edit

JLC has released AI-assisted board design tools that output editable project files, allowing users to open the file, change a part, review what the tool did, and continue working after the AI has finished. The tools are aimed at letting designers carry a board design through the next revision themselves rather than being locked into AI-generated output.

Open the project file, change a part, see what the tool did, keep working after the AI has had its turn. That’s what interests me in JLC’s board-design tools. Editable files mean you can carry the design through the next revision yourself. For us Limor, me, and some of the other folks experimenting and documenting …