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 > Unclassified mail > Personal Website: http://www.smtinfo.net > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------- > Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e > 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 or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to > [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) > 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 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e 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 or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------