timecop wrote:
A colleague recently made a board where with the refdes's under the parts and called it "industry standard practice". Nobody liked hauling around an assembly print to know what was what.Poor excuse. People soldering those close-up components will not know where to orient it and have to refer to your "assembly drawing".
Very true. Although some places you'd have to be creative, seems like lots of room for silkscreennot printing silk outline for at least R/C/L is silly.
2. Many of your parts are placed *extremely* close together.Too close what? Those are 0603 components? No problem unless the pads are wrong.
Yep, look for example, at X2/C10 (at X=3426, Y=2381) it is so close to X2/R9 and X2/R5. How will you avoid solder bridges there? In fact, the solder mask in that area overlaps, so theres nothing to stop the solder bridge. Also, the body of X2/U1 overlaps the body of X2/R9 and X2/R5. Maybe that U1 body outline is really bigger than the actual part, but even so, it's going to be very tight to assemble. There's a ton of real-estate there, why not spread it out a little bit.
Minor point - in the area where the layer numbers are visible, "1 2 3 4 5 6", the "6" is mirror imaged.
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