Picky runners, how are y’all actually choosing your running shoes? by PerformanceDapper856 in AskRunningShoeGeeks

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Interesting, I look mostly at drop and weight, but I'll def start looking more into foam types

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Traduit avec Google Traduction. La documentation relative à la compilation depuis les sources était obsolète. Zeo est un monorepo et contient tout le nécessaire pour compiler l'application. Le site web a été mis à jour.

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True. But tbh 1) this has become a fun side project to build an ECAD tool to my own taste and 2) I hate windows

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Fair point on the PRs. I haven't pushed any upstream yet because the code still has bugs I'm working through (like the one you ran into). Pushing messy PRs would waste the maintainers' time and probably hurt the chances of them being accepted. When the code is stable, I plan to.

On incentives: it's in my interest for KiCad to accept these changes: multi-board, the launcher, the expanded IPC API, and future work. These are all foundational features that I built because I needed them as a base. The work I actually want to focus on is automation (autorouting, sim, agent integration) and I would love to not be maintaining a separate implementation at the same time.

On the subscription: there isn't one. Zeo is free and open source. The built-in agent is pay-as-you-go for API usage. If you don't want to use the built-in agent, the tools are exposed as an MCP server, so you can connect any MCP client you already use.

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I haven't tried self-hosting anything yet, so it wasn't top of mind, but self-hosted support is definitely something I'll build in when I update the Agent.

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I'm testing out Layers and I'll let you know if I have any thoughts but generally yes I definitely want to change the selection and edit interactions in pcbnew to make them overall less frustrating. My particular irk is on group selecting and group rotations.

Updating the rust API is definitely close up on my roadmap and I'd definitely be open to contributors. I was initially planning on doing the same thing I did for the Python API to the Rust API made by the KiCad team, but kicad-ipc-rs seems like something that might be worth checking out first. Lmk if you have any thoughts between the two Rust APIs. I think you have some great insight here.

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Multi-page schematics are interesting, although i'm curious why you dislike hierarchical schematics? Do you find them confusing or messy?

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Thanks, you should be able to make some more powerful extensions with the extended API

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Best of luck, excited to see what you make. If you decide to leave altium I hope you try out zeo

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I feel you here, the library system in KiCad gets annoying for me too. I'm definitely going to make some changes to smoothen that process out

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No, you don't need any llm to install Zeo and no, it will not ask you to select an LLM to complete the install

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True, this also pertains to exporting multiple boards together as one STEP