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Top 9 Most Asked Questions in Flux

This guide is here to help. Based on the most common questions we hear from our users, it walks through practical solutions to unblock your designs and give you more confidence as you build.

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May 16, 2025
Teach Copilot How You Work with Knowledge

Teach Copilot How You Work with Knowledge

Now, Flux Copilot can learn how you work—your design principles, part selection preferences, schematic style guidelines, and testing workflows—and remember them automatically.

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May 19, 2025
Smart Polygons: Advanced PCB Design Just Got Easier

Smart Polygons: Advanced PCB Design Just Got Easier

We're excited to unveil our Smart Polygon system in Flux! This powerful capability builds on top of our automatic copper fills to transform how you create and manage custom copper areas in your PCB designs.

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May 8, 2025
Guide to GND Fills and Power Planes

Guide to GND Fills and Power Planes

In this post, we’ll explore why these concepts matter, how they impact signal integrity and power distribution, and what to keep in mind as you design. If you want to go deeper into implementation details—like when to use zones, where to place stitching vias, or how to avoid stack-up pitfalls—we’ve created a detailed PDF guide just for that.

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April 24, 2025
Introducing Curved Traces in Flux

Introducing Curved Traces in Flux

Whether you’re routing high-speed buses, fine-tuning antennas, or laying out clean RF filters, sharp 90º or even 45º angles can be a serious bottleneck. Now, you can create precisely curved elbows across entire nets—or dial them in trace by trace—with full control over radius, inheritance, and overrides.

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April 3, 2025
Top 20+ Flux Copilot Prompts (Refreshed)

Top 20+ Flux Copilot Prompts (Refreshed)

With the latest release of Copilot it isn’t just smarter—it’s hands-on, placing components and applying bulk changes to your project instantly. But to get the most out of it, knowing how to craft the right prompt is key.

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March 13, 2025
Design Circuits with Natural Language: Copilot Upgrade

Design Circuits with Natural Language: Copilot Upgrade

Imagine an AI teammate that doesn’t just chat about your PCB ideas, but actively transforms them into schematics—placing parts, connecting circuits, and optimizing your design at your command, all through natural language. That’s exactly what the newly overhauled Flux Copilot does.

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February 28, 2025