Abdulrahman wrote > The bottom line is that the photoplot people can panelize in seconds, > literally. They do it all day, every day. If you must control the panel, > then give them a dimiensioned drawing (which can be on a mech layer on your > original PCB file) and then tell them to step and repeat the other layers > accordingly. If you make changes to your board, you don't have to change > anything else....
Absolutely the way to go. A fab vendor is panalizing every board you do anyway, even if you only want separate boards delivered, they break them out of the panel they created. The fab house could not make any money if they did one ups on a 12x18 panel, or your boards would be pretty expensive. They do this like Abdulrahman said every day all day. All you need to do is provide the geometry of you panel to the fab vendor if it needs to be controlled for panelized assembly and test. We just added a sheet to the fab dwg that defined this panel. Also like Abdulrahman stated the only time you will need to touch this panel dwg again is if the board outline itself changes. This seems to me a whole lot easier than dealing with trying to merge whole design databases together. If you must be a little more contolling yourself the CAM software will step and repeat each file too just like the fab house does but again why put yourself through all that trouble, you will need to do this every time you make a simple change to the board. Let the fab do what they are going to be doing anyway just supply them with the dimensions you want. Robert M. Wolfe, C.I.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
