Homebrew PCBs

On 11/02/2012 14:01, Steve wrote:
> Thanks several of you for those explanations of "panelize." Very helpful.
>
> Allow me to push my luck with two more newbie questions.
>
> The itead studio web site has a line on their one of their PCB
> Prototyping pages which reads "*Drills line and long slot can\ufffdt be
> accepted."* I've seen similar constraints on other web sites.
>
> What is a "drills line"?
>
> What is a "long slot"?

A line of overlapping drills is one way of creating a slot. I think it 
has to be finished off with a file. Board manufacturers don't like them 
because they can break their drills.

They probably have a maximum slot length in their spec.

Leon
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Leon Heller
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