I will send a 10 cm x 10 cm Protopack order very shortly, composed of two projects (4.9 cm x 10 cm) designed with KiCad, and panelized with the Panelizer software available from the GerberTools package (https://github.com/ThisIsNotRocketScience/GerberTools). I followed this howto : https://hackaday.io/project/19202-small ... x-possible. This is clearly way MUCH easier compared to appending one board to the other in KiCad, adding mouse bites and so on.
Did someone already used this software ? I want to make sure the combined Gerber (and drilling) output files format is compatible with DirtyPCBs process before placing the order.
Thanks to you, I found what was wrong. For some reason, I had multiple duplicates of lines for the same slot. I probably ended tracing the lines with double-clicks instead of the 'End" key, and I had "polygons" instead of a single line.
Anyway, I deleted all of them by editing the pcb file (having a textual file is a so great), and redraw the slots very carefully ;-)
I've defined those slots as 0.05 mm wide lines on edge cuts showing the boundary of the slots.I've defined those slots as 0.05 mm wide lines on edge cuts showing the boundary of the slots.
I followed your advice and used a thin line to draw the boundaries of the internal slots, which are around 1.3 mm wide, instead of a single 1.3 mm thick line as I wanted to do at first. It clearly takes more time, but fortunately my slots are straight with no curbs ;-)
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radiused ends to the slots are easier to manufacture
I used half-circles for each end of the slots, so it should be ok.
I only regret that the 3D view doesn't display these internal slots, but I maybe missed something ? Any idea ?
I'm a designing a PCB with KiCad which requires internal slots to improve the HV isolation between tracks.
Is a single line, on the "Edge Cuts" layer (same layer as the board outline), of the slot thickness (width of the slot) good for the DirtyPCBs manufacturing process ?
