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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] To fillet or not to fillet on a PCB pattern

From: Rick Watson <watson.rick.101@...>
Date: 2014-07-28

The MITER command will let you quickly turn a: wire-90-wire into: wire-45-wire-45-wire. You can apply it to any wire join, it doesn't have to be 90 degrees. Just click and drag the join.

--Rick
On 7/27/2014 7:01 PM, hudakjm@... [Homebrew_PCBs] wrote:
 

I was wondering how many of you folks use fillets in your PCB patterns where two traces, or any two edges for that matter, meet at 90 degrees.
 
I was looking at some commercially produced patterns and they seem to frequently employ fillets.  This is I presume to prevent cutting in of the pattern at 90 degree corners when the board is etched.  For a pattern produced on a computer it's easy enough to add them in.  Would it make any difference if one is using the toner transfer method?

Thanks in advance for your comments.

John