I’m trying out Quilter for the first time, I love the concept! Nice UI and workflow too. I was able to get numerous candidate layouts based on a schematic and board file I provided. When I download a layout candidate, it looks reasonable in 2D view but the 3D view looks very odd: there is no “board…

Hi @miguel ! I took a look at one of the candidate files (candidate 22 in particular). I am seeing the board outline show up OK on my end (I am using the latest version of Altium - 24.1.2). I did a bit of googling and came across a similar issue here: board - Altium not showing PCB's body in 3D view…

@miguel just added an idea to our Ideas board, feel free to upvote it along with any other thoughts you have for how to improve Quilter! [image] Move 3D component bodies to match what happened to footprints Ideas Quilter should automatically move associated 3D bodies for …

Thanks for the quick reply and suggestions! One of the suggestion from that Stack Exchange was successful in fixing the missing board in 3D. One thing I stumbled across while poking around: it appears the layer stackup was modified by Quilter. See the attached images showing the original and Quil…

Great catch on the stack-up changes! We do attempt multiple layer counts altogether - so Quilter will try a 2, 4, 6, 8 layer board as appropriate and show you all of the options - and with that we do intentionally export that new stackup to altium, but I think we are not carrying enough information …

Board in 3D looks weird

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@miguel just added an idea to our Ideas board, feel free to upvote it along with any other thoughts you have for how to improve Quilter!

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Board in 3D looks weird

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