Hi Ioan,

The idea is that the production engineers determines the panelisation
including the position of the tabs. Then they should use some kind of
software to draw this specification, in the easiest possible way.
I didn't mean that the software should automatically determine the
positions of the tabs.

Daan

>>> [log in to unmask] 09/09/02 07:30pm >>>
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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