Review layout candidates
Explanation of Quilter’s Candidate Review page, including evaluating successful and unsuccessful layout candidates, managing filters, and downloading results.
Overview
Once Quilter has finished exploring layout options for a job, it marks it as "complete" and returns one of three different "results."
Successful: Quilter successfully identified 100% complete candidates.
Unsuccessful: Quilter couldn't find any 100% complete candidates.
Failed: Quilter encountered an internal error or issue during the layout job and couldn't return any layout candidates.
On the Candidate Review page, you can:
Select candidates by clicking them in the left-hand sidebar.
Inspect candidates by clicking "Detail View" to toggle individual board layers and object types (see Detail view).
Edit and update filters to include or exclude candidates with specific design parameters (see Filtering).
Review PRCs for the selected candidate (see Physics Rule Checks (PRCs)).
Download a candidate to inspect it offline in your preferred CAD tool.
Duplicate the job to create a new draft layout job with the same files, physics constraints, and design parameters (see Job Actions).
Successful jobs
Jobs are successful if Quilter can place and route at least one layout candidate to 100% without DRC errors.
Successful candidates within your design parameters
If Quilter generated successful candidates within your design parameters, they will be presented by default, with the current top pick highlighted for review.
Successful candidates – outside your design parameters
If Quilter generated successful candidates, but all were outside your specified design parameters, you will see the notification below.
Clicking the "Show successful candidates" button will clear your design parameter filters and display the top pick among all candidates generated for your layout job.
Unsuccessful jobs
No successful candidates generated
If Quilter was unable to generate any successful candidates at all, you will see the notification below.
Clicking the "Show incomplete candidates" button will clear the filter and present the best <100% candidates generated by Quilter.
No candidates returned
If Quilter was entirely unable to return any layout candidates for your job, you will see the notification below.
This usually means that Quilter encountered an error or issue while generating your layout job and failed to complete it.
Clicking the "Send us a message" button will start a chat with the Quilter team so we can resolve the issue for you.
Sorting and filtering
On the Candidate Review page, you can use the design parameter filters at the top to narrow down the visible and recommended layout candidates.
These filters start with your target design parameters, but you can adjust them while browsing the page to refresh the results.
We currently offer design parameter filters for the following:
Single-sided placements
Minimum trace width
Minimum trace clearance
Layer count
Fabricator preference
For more information on filtering candidates, see Filtering.
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