Ok, I've been lurking on this one. Since idle hands wind up filling out forms at the unemployment office I have volunteered to take on some projects outside my normal scope of responsibility. (Darn that ol' mortgage payment.) Aside from maintaining our website, helping with trade show logistics, and LAN support, I have a project to publish suppliers recommended layouts for all our parts. From what I'm hearing most of you would throw away my recommendation and start over again. I had great plans to milk this with test PCB's, sample runs, and a stunning excel report to illustrate the results to management. Here are my questions, Assume that IPC doesn't have and never will have a standards for my product. (We don't account for a rounding error in the percentage of active components supplied to the electronics industry). What supporting evidence would convince you to use my recommendations? If I supplied the patterns in electronic format would you be more likely to use them? Hopefully you like this one 'cause then I get to figure out how to set up and FTP site to down-load files. Dan P.S.: I heard rumors there are seasons other than winter, any truth to that? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------