Well, BC is definitely après paux! I remember the checkers at Sander's
Associate's here in Nashua, NH would check my Bishop Template placement on a
4:1 mylar layout. They would always tell me that my pads were
off-grid.......he always won and I always lost........they should bring
Checkers back to help us all get back on-grid!
Deac
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-----Original Message-----
From: DesignerCouncil [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Pete
Waddell
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 2:40 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [DC] What does off-grid mean?
The first time I heard this was from a guy named Butch Broberg from
somewhere in Oklahoma. It was BC (Before CAD) when we did use grids. Of
course anything off that grid was considered a registration problem. I was
trying to decide whother to stay with EM design or PCBs. In one of his
moments (Butch was a great guy who would constantly amaze me with his
exploits and his witty reparte') he looked at me with a glint in his eye and
a bottle of Bushmills in his hand and said "You know Pete, ya gotta be aat
least a little off-grid to be in this business" I took it to mean that PCB
designers march to a different drummer if ya know what I mean.
Anybodyout there know what ever became of Butch?
p.
>>> [log in to unmask] 1/3/2007 1:49:12 PM >>>
I think that term came from one of Pete Waddell's friends
(Pete is the owner of UPMedia, PCDesign magazine)
Have you ever noticed that the people who have chosen
circuit board design as a long-term career are a little "off"
their rockers? Maybe a creative streak, maybe a twisted
sense of humor, maybe a lateral thinker, punster, dreamer,
not yer everyday 9-to-5 button down kinda folk?
That's off-grid.
And what's funny about it is back in the not-too-long-ago
past everything we did had to BE on a grid. (even though
solving the puzzle of making everything FIT on the grid
inspired sometimes crazy "I got it" eureka moments)
onward thru the fog,
Jbro
On 1/3/07, Charles Gervasi <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> What do you mean when you say you're an off-grid designer?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DesignerCouncil [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Hankins, Stephen
> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 12:29 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [DC] alone in the dark?
>
> The lights are on and we are not alone!
> To all the proud, off-grid designers here, welcome to 2007.
>
> Stephen Hankins
> PCB Design
> Xantech Corp.
> 818 362-0353 x255
>
>
>
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