The scad file produces a version with no polarity enforcement. I don't want to use it or promote it myself, but if you need it, the option is there.
I want to develop a standard, and I don't want to develop a standard that doesn't include polarity. But you can have whatever you want for yourself. You don't need to use a polarized version, or any version. There is still another possible method I described but haven't made a drawing of yet, where the polarity takes the form of a bump sticking out the end of the pcb, off-center near pin1, and the carrier has a matching hole in it. That version could accept a plain rectangle too so it would serve double duty in a single design. The pcb router path wouldn't be a simple rectangle, which is no problem except cleaning up the panelization break off points on that end wouldn't be as simple as a flat surface. But that leaves the entire main rectangle untouched. Might as well add that option to the scad file too. I just realized I can embed visualizations and matching pcb dimensions of all versions right in the readme.md . openscad can output pngs, and github has a built-in stl viewer, and I can grep dimensions right out of the scad file. So, in no time I should be able to have it where you just go to the github and you can see everything right there in the browser without having to install openscad or kicad or even an stl viewer. Anyway, sure you can have a carrier that just takes a plain rectangle pcb. That option is already in there. -- bkw On Sat, Aug 24, 2019, 7:27 AM Stephen Adolph <[email protected]> wrote: > Brian would it be ok to just make the user have to orient the pcb in the > carrier? > >
