Re: gEDA-user: placing a connector footprint "out" of a board

[Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:33:15 +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote:

> I made my first PCB ever - and I did it with PCB 

Welcome to the club of geda/pcb users!


>  I now made the board a
> bit bigger to have the connector placed properly. I then drew a brown
> line (component layer)  to mark where the board should end:

Fine. This is almost the recommended way of dealing with this issue:

Add a layer called "outline" and place a the outline of the board there. 
Gerber export will produce a separate gerber file, that tells the fab 
where to cut the board. I'd include a README in the zip file of gerbers 
where I explicitely state which file to take the outline from.

---<(kaimartin)>---
PS: I noticed a dead end track extending from the seventh row of pins of 
C32. Is this deliberate?
-- 
Kai-Martin Knaak
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