Hello again, Thanks to all who have answered my question!
I have created a layer named "outline" and drawn the board outline there with 10 mil copper lines as DJ Delorie has indicated. I've also done the following trick. Recall that my board looks like this (smaller version of the ASCII art drawing): +--------+------+ | | | | | | | +------+ | | | | +--------+ Well, the above is actually how *I* prefer to visualise it visually. Physically the PCB looks like this: +---------------+ | | | | | +------+ | | | | +--------+ The 2nd picture is what I want the PCB house to see (so that they don't cut where they shouldn't), but while doing the layout I prefer to see the 1st picture on my screen. Reason: this PCB is essentially two separate pieces juxtaposed together. The part on the left is where the entire functional circuit is laid out, including the DC power input connector. The part on the right is the completely independent AC mains section that takes AC power from an IEC 320 kettle plug and carries it to an internal connector for the open frame power supply that sits in the cutout. That part could have been implemented with a panel-mounted mains entry and omitted from the PCB altogether. So I prefer to think of the functional section and the AC mains section as completely separate, hence the desire to see a line separating them. What I have done is I've drawn picture 1 on the outline layer, and when I'm done with the layout, just before generating the gerbers I'll edit the pcb file and shorten one of the lines to transform picture 1 into picture 2. MS _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
