Thieving is used on panel edges and sometimes between parts. Its primary purpose is to even out plating distribution. Additionally, a well designed thieving pattern can have some benefits at lamination by evening our pressures and resin flows. > Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 08:00:20 -0700 > From: "Tomas A. Gutierrez" <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: THIEVING > Can anyone out there explain the process of thieving during pcb > fabrication. > > thanks in anvance, > > Tomas > > ################################################################ TechNet 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 TechNet <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TechNet ################################################################ 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 ################################################################