Picture worth 1000 words, attached is an example, basically the boards are joined by 'tabs' to the tooling strips (the surrounding pcb that eventually gets discarded) or to other pcbs in the panel, in this example the main board and the lcd daughterboard. This allows the boards to be removed from the panel after assembly by breaking the tabs. The 'gap' between the tabs is performed by a single router bit in this case 0.097"
How I did it was to initially draw the outline of my boards as per normal then build up my panel but adding the tabs and tooling strips then removing the original outlines. However as mentioned this board won't export to spectra, maybe because of the internal routes. Hope this helps Stephen. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anders Gustafsson Sent: Thursday, 24 June 2010 3:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Sv: RE: [kicad-users] Creating 2 PCB's from 1 Circuit Diagram Kan you elaborate? I am not familiar with the term "tabbed route". - Anders Gustafsson Engineer, CNE6, ASE Pedago, The Aaland Islands (N60 E20) www.pedago.fi phone +358 18 12060 mobile +358 40506 7099 fax +358 18 14060 >>> "Stephen Eaton" <[email protected] <mailto:seaton%40gateway.net.au> > 2010-06-24 02:09 >>> eventually joined them with tabbed routes __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5223 (20100623) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com
