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The board is drawn the way breadboards are made. With column 1 at the left, row j is now at the top and
row a at the bottom, and each pair of rails has its - rail above its + rail, as on BusBoard's BB830, the
MB-102 boards and Adafruit's. The drawing used to be the mirror image of a real board: its hole names didn't
match the ones printed on yours, and a chip placed by its pin 1 (at:) could only go in upside down. A hole's
name now means the hole with that name on your board. A file that places parts by hand keeps its drawing if
its rows are swapped a↔j, b↔i, c↔h, d↔g, e↔f; the rails now default to -+ (top to
bottom) on both sides.
Placement keeps a part's body off every hole of its own pins' strips, leaving each pin a hole for its wire: a
module whose body hangs over its pins' strips (an OLED) could be placed with no way to wire it.
Placement no longer puts a chip's pin in a strip where the file has put a leg or a wire end of another net, or
a pin or the chip's body on a hole the file takes: it used to short into LEDs placed by hand. When there's no
other place for a chip, bbgen says so and names what's in the way, and it never returns a layout with a short
of its own making.
Placement draws chips toward what the file places: a leg placed by hand counts as a fixed pin of its net, and
a chain of resistors or diodes bbgen places pulls the chip at its far end toward it. Place the LEDs, and the
chip driving them through resistors lands beside them.
A flat wire no longer crosses another flat wire: it moves to other holes in the same strips, or becomes a
flexible jumper where none clear it. A signal wired along the board's outer row used to block the supply wires
laid after it.
A wire running under a resistor or other two-lead part says so in the checklist, naming the part to put in
after it, as one under a raised module does.
A closed pipe (bbgen check FILE --json | head) ends bbgen quietly instead of panicking.
Parts that repeat around parts the file places are placed alike: each LED's resistor the same way round its
LED, where the board leaves room. Chips keep off the strip across the trench from a hand-placed leg, where
those parts go.