On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 07:14:47PM -0800, Stephen Meier wrote: > Yes make the PCB work area larger then the board. The extra area is > usefull for organizing parts and rotating them after the board area > becomes dense. After you have finshed routing then reduce the PCB are to > the size required for the board. >
Yes, this works well when placing the components on the board for the first time. I found it to not work so well when you add more components to a already routed design. The issue I ran into was that it was very difficult to find a big enough area on the PCB to bring in the additional components to wihout any of the pads hooking up to existing etch. I guess the way to do this would be to increase the size of the PCB every time before adding more components, which is a little weird way of working. Would it be possible to have PCB accept components placed outside the board edges ? What would be involved in supporting that ? Thanks -- Daniel Nilsson
