Interesting question Daan. I would like to know this too.

However, I think the positioning of the breakaway tabs should be carefully
pondered and I advise that any automatically generated results be checked.
You might end up with tabs near a fragile element (big hole near edge) of
the PCB. Or you might find some applications where the use of hybrid
V_score-routing is better.

I therefore advocate the manual work.

Regards,
Ioan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: d. terstegge [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 11:46 AM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      [TN] Panelisation Software
>
> Hi Technet,
>
> For most of our products we ask our boardvendors to choose suitable
> positions for the break-away patterns. This is giving more problems then
> I want, and as an alternative I am considering to ask our production
> engineers to fully specify the design and positions of the break-away
> patterns.
> Currently we're using Kwickfit to specify our panelisations, but that
> doesn't have the possibility to specify how the break-off patterns look
> and where they should be positioned.
> Is there, besides dedicated PCB-design software and general
> CAD-software, any software on the market that can make such a detailed
> specification of a board-panelisation ?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Daan Terstegge
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