At 01:40 PM 11/8/01 -0800, Dwight wrote: >I didn't know about putting traces along the edges, but the board shop >called & asked if we'd like them to pull the planes back from the board >edges! So having a good board shop can pay off...
I've understood that board shops know that you *never* want planes to go all the way to the edge, so if they see a board which could fab with exposed copper at the edge, they would pull it back sufficiently to guarantee that it was clear. If you design a setback into your board, they will use that unless they consider it insufficient to guarantee clearance. It is obviously good design practice to make the clearance explicit. Protel did not factor for this in designing the DRC. There is, actually, no defined board edge definition. There should be a layer hard-coded to board outline. This would allow an edge clearance design rule, and then primitives on the inner plane layers which did not bite into the plane beyond that clearance would not, properly, create the "primitives on inner plane" warning that we now get whenever we design an inner plane correctly.... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Abdulrahman Lomax Easthampton, Massachusetts USA * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
