I can't speak about all regions of the country let alone the world..... but yes ask ask ask.... why do you do that .... if you use that tool what are the requirements....
I did ask today, uhm looking at DJ's clock ok yesterday. The assembly shop had a tool that would look around under the bga... what clearances does that tool require? (they fessed up to breaking a few probes early on) how tightly can I pack devices? does putting smt caps under a bga degrade the xray imaging? We as engineers need to understand these issue from a manufacturability view point. We as geda need to understand these issues so that our tools can be developed to meet the requirements of manufacturers. And our tools need to be very very very extensible so that we can describe every thing from a high school science project to a 5 mill pitch flip chip on a flex circuit (rotated 0.63 radians). On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 00:11 -0400, Dave McGuire wrote: > On Oct 31, 2008, at 10:02 PM, Bob Paddock wrote: > > Ask the person on the line what you can do to improve your board > > from > > his/her perspective. If you don't ask the people doing the > > work (not > > the front > > end customer service/sales people who aren't doing the work) > > you may never hear any complaints from anyone, > > because of the "Customer is always right" policy. > > Well, at least ONE industry still has such a policy. ;) > > -Dave > _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user