I have always liked it when I found a PCB layout in which the copper traces looked very artistic. I have access to a laser engraver and want to engrave a nice looking set of copper traces on the back of my iPad.
Does anyone have a board design that they would be willing to share? If you have it in KiCad that would be best I can export it to the engraver software in whatever size I need. The diagram would need to be for a larger project simpler projects don’t have enough traces to make it interesting. I only work on smaller/simple projects that is why I am asking here.
@bgwiz design is probably from the pre-computer area single side board done with tape and pencil. Today very similar looking results come from feature “Bottlenecking” and “Teardrops”. Altium 20 recently also introduced a video with curved trace. You can check out the demo video at:
The behaviour comes from topological router. Check out the TopoR here:
edit: I should add the bottom one was done in Kicad without plugins, I was stuck waiting for another part of a project so had some fun with the free angle router.
If you take my second image as an example, they are trying to add spline traces into kicad for RF stuff, meaning it should be easier to make curvy layouts,
as to the copper fills, turn on fillet for your zones with a radius of about 0.2-0.5mm lay them down however you want, and use clearance setup to make things space away from others and you will not be far off from it,