i bet they pulled them back as SOP
Dennis Saputelli
Nicholas Cobb wrote:
>
> Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but I thought that the power plane
> clearance rule in the manufacturing section also included clearance from the
> keepout layer around the edge of the board. So far, I have never drawn any
> copper on the internal planes to keep them away from the edge of the board,
> and they have all turned out with clearance. This may be from the board
> house changing this, but I figured I would have heard something.
> Nick Cobb
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Abd ul-Rahman Lomax" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 7:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [PEDA] keepoutlayer and planes ??
>
> > At 06:02 PM 11/8/01 -0600, Jon Elson wrote:
> > > What you need to do is place rectangular fills all around the edges
> > >of the board to hold the power planes out of that area. This is what
> I've
> > >been doing for years.
> >
> > The practice of copying the outline track to the inner planes, as
> described
> > by others, and then blowing it out with a global edit to, say, 50 mils, is
> > simpler and, with a complex outline, faster.
> >
> > Mr Elson made some good points about how to do gerber import. One note I
> > would add is that Protel, if possible, flashes fills, it does not "fill"
> > them, so when they are reimported, they become pads. Yes, pads. This
> > introduces certain complications, trying to view solder mask imports.
> >
> > It's better, I suggest, to view gerbers in CAMtastic or another Gerber
> > viewer. But it can be convenient to view them in Protel, and the ability
> to
> > import gerber is a real plus for many reasons.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Abdulrahman Lomax
> > Easthampton, Massachusetts USA
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