Flux.ai, any experience?

[ToBSn]

https://www.flux.ai

Did anyone test this new circuit design tool?

Any infos / outcome to share?

The feature set looks promising.

What I don’t like is hosting the projects just online on there servers.

 

[Script]

Interesting. Would love to hear some user experience too.

But if it is as 'intelligent' as Chatgpt et al., then God forbid...

 

[JohnRoberts]

pass....

JR

 

[fragletrollet]

Try for free then asks you to start a subscription with a 14 day trial

But I wouldn't discount the idea. If it is even 25% as good at circuit layout as some of the stronger models (chatGPT 4o and Claude Opus/3.5 Sonnet) I've used are in software coding, it's gonna be pretty awesome for a newbie. It probably isn't though (yet). But as an ee-student I've found massive learning from interacting with the mentioned AI's on topics like math, software code (or hardware description language like Verilog) and to some extent circuit analysis (where it is considerably weaker compared to the two previous subjects, but still helpful).

 

[capacitorless]

I'm definitely in - it can't hurt to learn! I do share the reservations that the OP expressed about hosting.

 

[merlin]

A bigger problem the world ought to solve is a universal stardard file format for schematics and PCBs.
I can open gerber files anywhere, but the circuit diagram and PCB layout I can only open in the software that created it. When that software goes obsolete or starts asking me for subscriptions and updates I don't want, those files become useless.

 

[fragletrollet]

Is there really no way to open schematic files as plain text somehow? One would think the info could be summarized in terms of xy values and simple ASCII letters. Aren't many mechanical files like that?

 

[soulsonic]

Drawing the PCB manually myself is one of the most enjoyable design steps for me, so this isn't very attractive. It's cool if it works, but it's not for me.