A few years ago I was using PCB Pool for my hobby boards. They did a great job of finishing the edges of the boards. Basically a clean routed edge on all sides.
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I then switched to OSH Park because I'm in the US and that helped avoid overseas credit card payments. OSH Park does a great job, but they do leave those little spikes on the edges of the boards, so I have to manually sand them off. Not a big deal for the quantities I do, but it would be nicer if they did the trimming at their shop. Anyway, you might look at PCB Pool - they were great at trimming the edges. BTW, OSH Park says not to put the board outline in every gerber - they only want it in its own file. Steve On 9/13/24 11:00 AM, Ian Bell via groups.io wrote:
I don't want to make a big thing of this - as I said it was easy to work around. However, the? board *outline*?is supposed to have zero thickness - it is just a bounding box not a physical thing. The reason for plotting it on all layers is it helps the manufacturer visualize the overall shape of the board no matter what layer they are looking at which is important for assessing manufacturability e.g track to edge clearances. But as I say it is not a big thing, it only occurs with Aisler and it is easy to work round. |