Re: de-panelizing scored PCBs

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 12:40:00 -0700, 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.

If a board has to *** up against _anything_, it's a poor design in the
first place. (unless it's part of the enclosure itself, in which case
you'll have a whole nother set of tolerance issues. ;-) )

Cheers!
Rich

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