Re: de-panelizing scored PCBs



Walter Harley wrote:

One can get PCBs manufactured as one big board that contains multiple copies
of the intended product, eg an NxM array of little PCBs. The separation can
either be by a v-score, or by tab-routing.

With tab-routing, it's easy to bust the individual pieces out by hand, but
one is left with non-straight edges because of the spots where the tabs
connect. This is fine in some applications, but a problem in applications
where the board needs to *** up against eg an enclosure edge.

You can 'recess' the tabbed section to avoid this.

Graham

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