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."

1. Successful: Quilter successfully identified >95% complete candidates.

2. Unsuccessful: Quilter couldn't find any >95% complete candidates.

3. 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).

• Review PRCs for the selected candidate (see Physics Rule Checks (PRCs)).

• Download a placement to modify the component locations, before reuploading it

• Download a candidate to inspect it offline in your preferred CAD tool and tweak the routing, or do a partial ripup before reuploading for Quilter to finish

• Duplicate the job to create a new draft layout job with the same files, physics constraints, and design parameters (see Job Actions).

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.