Brian, Based on advice I got from this designer council about a year ago, I contacted Minco Prod. in Minnesota, and got a big packet of useful literature on flex circuit design. I agree, it's a very good idea to involve the vendor early, and often. Richard Hatano EMS Inc. ---------- From: BKDoughty1 To: DesignerCouncil Subject: [DC] Flex Knowledge needed Date: Monday, March 30, 1998 10:25AM Good Morning Designers & Tech Heads, I'm in need of some information, and I thought I could ask here. I've designed one flex circuit and now they (The powers that be) want to put more components on it [Story of my life, I'm sure other designers would agree with me]. Anyway, If there are any fabricators or anyone in the know out there that can help me I would appreciate it. I need to thin out my traces to get yet another component on my layout but I already have a bottleneck happrening. Can anyone give me some pointers or tell me how thin traces can go on a flex circuit without driving the price up at the board house...I need input. My bosses want to know how long this change will take start to finish. I can't even tell them how long it will take me to figure out how lonng it will take me.......PLEASE HELP I Thank anyone in advance for their help and offer them my first born :) Thanks, Brian K. Doughty Numonics Corporation ################################################################ DesignerCouncil E-Mail Forum provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ################################################################ To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE DesignerCouncil <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF DesignerCouncil ################################################################ Please visit IPC web site (http://jefry.ipc.org/forum.htm) for additional information. For the technical support contact Dmitriy Sklyar at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.311 ################################################################ ################################################################ DesignerCouncil E-Mail Forum provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ################################################################ To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE DesignerCouncil <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF DesignerCouncil ################################################################ Please visit IPC web site (http://jefry.ipc.org/forum.htm) for additional information. For the technical support contact Dmitriy Sklyar at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.311 ################################################################