[PCB_FORUM] Re: Ups/downs of board outline being an unfilled shape?

Hey Chris,

I always made the board outline as continuous Lines..  It really isn't that
difficult to do using the Chamfer and Fillet functionality to join the
lines to form
a closed polygon.   As you know any closed polygon can be Z-Copied to
create
planes and keepins for the board.  It is also very important to have a
close
polygon as the board outline because Valor will no understand the multiple
lines and simply draw a box around all the line segments to identify the
board outline.

My two cents.

Michael Catrambone
UTStarcom, Inc.




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02/21/2005 01:51 PM


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I seek the wisdom of the group:

Does anyone have their board outlines as unfilled shapes (with possible
voids), as opposed to a giant LINE object ( and possible internal LINE
objects)? I would think there'd be numerous advantages of having the
outline as a shape , mainly the impossibility of creating a non-closed or
discontinuous LINE.

What say ye?

Chris Walters
local Cadence guru
(Apple)




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