I suppose you're correct on that Dennis, but I imagine the board shop would
send it out for machining, and the whole process would be "invisible" to the
customer.

Tom Hybiske
Bose Corporation
The Mountain
MS 15D
Framingham, MA 01701




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Beerman, Dennis [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 2:43 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [DC] routing the thickness of a board
>
>
> Most board shops couldn't handle what you are proposing, but
> if you gave
> your bare boards to a machine shop they would have no
> problems with your
> design.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Susy Webb [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 12:58 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [DC] routing the thickness of a board
>
>
> I've got a good one for the gurus out there!
>
> And engineer just asked me if a rigid board could have an
> area (an edge
> actually) routed such that the overall area of the board is
> one thickness
> (.125), and the routed area is another (.062) See the side
> view picture
> below...
>
>
> routed area
>           \   __________________
>         _____|                  |
> .062    |_______________________| .125
>
>
>
> Other than the obvious issues of controlling routing depth,
> and I imagine a
> hugh cost, what else should I be concerned about? Can it even
> be done??? We
> were thinking that it might be easier to build two boards and
> fuse them into
> one, but would the alignment problems kill that idea?
>
> TIA for any help,
> Susy
>
> Susy Webb, CID
> Sr PCB Designer
> Carlo Gavazzi Computer Systens
> 281-875-1500 x33
> [log in to unmask]
>
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