I don't think they need to "route" the step - I believe they can do this by
using creative lamination techniques. (laminate a layer of .062 onto
another of a different dimension)
-Denis


At 11:58 AM 2/6/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>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
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