I'm done with routing two PCBs which I'll be sending to fab house this weekend hopefully. While using the price calculator, I found out that if I am able to put both of them in the same order, it would turn out to be like 50% cheaper and I could use the saved money for BOM parts. Now the thing is these are two different boards, one of size 42x84mm and the second one 42x92mm (I entered the total value of 100x100mm in the calculator for price quote). They are both of rectangular shape, nothing irregular there. Since I have never made a panel before, I'd like to ask if anyone has any experience with it that he would like to share?
This is what I've found so far. There are two frequently mentioned options, V-scoring and break tabs + mouse bites. I kind off like the latter, so I browsed on how to do it properly in Eagle. I've found this post: "I make a slot of 50 mill wide (which is well bigger then what is allowed: 32mil (0.8mm)). To add mousebites I use the line tool with layer dimension, width 0 and draw an arc to make the end of a slot round. the width of the mouse bite I use is 75 mil. Next I place the smallest hole possible 25 mill apart on both sides." http://dangerousprototypes.com/forum/download/file.php?id=11775&mode=view I've also taken a look at PCB Panelizer tool: http://blog.thisisnotrocketscience.nl/projects/pcb-panelizer/ https://hackaday.io/project/19202-small-pcbs-for-panelizing-tutorial/log/59210-panelization-using-gerberpanelizer-on-windows-linux-possible Has anyone used this tool? I downloaded it and tried it out, the included gerber viewer seems to display everything correctly in the final panel layout. I'm just a bit worried whether there may be any bugs that could cause displacement of inner layers (power+ground planes) in relation to the outer layers as I place components manually a lot using a very fine grid (which means X and Y positions of components typically have many decimal places), but I guess someone would have already reported such problems. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/855d9db7-c624-423e-8033-2795c227afdf%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
