i too have done this for years without any trouble or excess work (in 99SE)
sounds just about like the way darcy is doing it often different boards, usually as set of boards associated with a given product so they all get soldered together then when broken apart you have everything for one unit in this case make sure the designators of the differing boards are do not duplicate other ones on differing boards i draw those with a multi page master schematic as if they were going to be a single board design, that makes it easy use paste special keep same net allow duplicate designators (VERY IMPORTANT) no you can't (easily) DRC it, polygons can sometimes be a pain make sure it is REALLY REALLY done first and don't mess with it after arrayed caveats i blew one job once out of many (we are still putting a jumper wire years later) one short trace somehow didn't get selected during the copy/paste the solution i have implemented is this: if you are feeling uneasy, make a copy of the finished panelized board, then delete all but one board, load the netlist, run the DRC, quit without saving and repeat until all are done a bit of pain but it works many others will suggest to let the fab house do it and there are very good arguments for that which i will not take on am currently using AD6 and have not tackled this there, i may or may not do that - i fear a little hand will pop from the screen and slap me PS if PCBFABEXPRESS detects you are doing this they will bounce the job (repeated fab numbers, cut marks or whatever) but they are SO cheap that it seems fair enough and they do explain why cutting boards apart is not as easily done as said anyway and i have a PCB shear here (forget about sawing) Dennis Saputelli _______________________________________________________________________ CONTACT INFORMATION: _______________________________________________________________________ Integrated Controls, Inc. Tel: 415-647-0480 EXT 107 2851 21st Street Fax: 415-647-3003 San Francisco, CA 94110 www.integratedcontrolsinc.com _______________________________________________________________________ NOTE! TO PASS OUR SPAM FILTER PUT THE FOLLOWING IN SUBJECT LINE: I.C.I. Darcy Davis wrote: > Hey Dusan, > > We're working in P99SE and we panelize almost all of our designs within > P99SE. The reasoning for this is that we have some features on our panel > that are schematic based. I'm pretty sure we could combine the two gerber > sets in camtastic, but we've got a fairly smooth process that works within > P99SE. Essentially, we define the panel and then place an array of "PCB > footprint" parts in this panel to define where each individual PCB will be. > This "PCB footprint" is just the board outline, routing path and mousebytes > to ensure that our panel features don't interfere with any of the individual > board features. Once both the panel and the individual board are defined, > you copy and paste the individual board into the panel. There are a bunch of > "gotchas" when doing this, but I won't go into detail unless someone asks... > > Darcy > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Dusan Mihajlovic > Sent: October 20, 2006 1:40 AM > To: Protel EDA Discussion List > Subject: [PEDA] Generating panel of PCBs... > > Hi, > > in regards to previous discussion on generating panel of PCBs in P99SE I > would like to ask you what are your experience with this? What software > tools are you using to generate panel of PCBs and what are your experience > with manufacturer. > > Until now I only sent single PCBs to my manufacturer and "engineering cost" > for preparing panel of PCBs just went too high. I would like to do this my > self and save my company some of the charges. > > Thanks, > > Dusan > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
