Comment by joshvm
1 day ago
This is a really good use case, though I'd be surprised if there aren't macros to do simple grid layout already in Altium or KiCad. It's the sort of thing you'd find in a badly documented Eagle userscript. I recently made a smaller PCB with 30 LEDs in a specific colour arrangement and even that was a pain by hand.
Jlcpcb, the manufacturer mentioned in the article, has a graphical editor with grid functionality and they even have a JS API if you want to automate PCB changes like arranging LEDs or renaming components.