I have no reason to make copper rotini tuning these traces so tightly since they're just carrying analog audio but they're differential so by the fanged god I'm gonna deskew these signals! It's good practice anyway.
(This is an analog audio I/O card I'm making so I can have front panel audio to plug in headphones and a mic, but it has two extra inputs and one extra output, so I put one of each on the back. It's probably violating some best practices but it's mostly for testing and the front panel audio on the box header is the most important part anyway. Also feel free to ask questions about my projects :3)
I upgraded from KiCAD 5 to KiCAD 8 this week because I was looking for font options and at some point they added the ability to use any font on your computer for text. Is 8 perfect? No. Do I wish they kept some things the same? Yes. Have I mostly tamed it into fitting my existing workflow? Also yes. One dark theme, some keyboard shortcut remapping, and some setting tweangling later and it's fine. Is it worth the upgrade?
My god the ability to adjust trace lengths AFTER YOU ALREADY ADJUSTED THEM is WORTH IT ALONE! You can adjust the squigglies afterwards to fine tune the length! Making the copper rotinis got so much easier.
Also as a note, if you're wondering why I have to do this again, I flipped the board so (almost) all the components are actually on the front. Wasn't too much work and it's a bit nicer in some ways (and only minorly less nice in a couple, such as not fitting pinouts on the front). Anyway, hope to wrap it up in a week or two and getting the board sent off to a fab. Will post photos when I get it.
