Adeel,
As a CM, we see the outcome of this approach frequently. If your
planning for machine build, be sure each board has unique reference
designators. It's nice to have unique designators for SMT pick &
place programming.
For design, I prefer to keep each board separate, but I also assure
that each board has unique designators. This leaves you flexibility
on the fabrication side to change the panel design as production needs warrant.
For fabrication, I create a panel drawing with AutoCAD (with tooling,
fiducials and fab notes), import that into CAMtastic, create a gerber
of the panel with CAMtastic, and supply the panel gerber/fabnotes
drawing and individual board gerbers to the board house.
Regards,
Steve
At 06:57 AM 7/27/2005, you wrote:
Hi There,
In order to reduce the fabrication charges, I want to
combine the data of two PCBs to one PCB such that the data for PCB1 and
PCB2 are placed one above the other.
One option is to design the two PCBs separately (separate databases) and
then combine the Final PCB Data layout of PCB1 and PCB2 to one PCB.
The other option is to design the PCB as a single database and
place/route the components firstly for PCB1 and secondly for PCB2 and
then redraw the Board Outline for a single PCB.
Can someone share some thoughts about some better way of doing this.
Regards,
Adeel Malik
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