I'm designing a flex with LEDs/stiffener on half of
it, and exposed rectangular pads at the floppy end.

kind of like:

[O=O=O=O=O=O]=============E


Our typical designs are rigid flex, and I usually
panelize them with break-away rails attached to the
rigid portion, which we remove afterwards.

Maybe I just haven't had my coffee yet, but I can't
think how to panelize a long floppy like the one above?
We don't get the bare boards one-up do we?

There has to be a way to support them for automated
assembly, right? Do you make a fixture or something?

We do NOT want to hand-assemble these!

Jack ("early fog, burning off by noon")

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