Panelizing PCB & Assembly: prepping the boards

Pt 101092

Panelizing PCB & Assembly: prepping the boards… If you want to send out PCBs for manufacture you can save a lot of money by tiling them, here’s a nice walkthru of using the open source gerbmerge tool to tile your PCBs..


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3 Comments

  1. Guess this means I should write up the remaining parts of the process eh? There’s lots of fun & games going on with parts placement that I need to cover. http://blog.omegacs.net/2011/06/07/fully-assembled-anyseistm-boards/ has pics of the assembled boards back from Screaming Circuits.

  2. YellowStarfish

    Thanks to this walkthrough I now see a lot of wasted star-shaped breakout boards between the actual boards. 😉

    Awesome!

  3. Heh, the “ninja stars”. I just realized though that Screaming Circuits tossed those out when they depanelized after assembly. Too bad, I had people from DorkbotPDX asking to keep some….

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