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Silk outside board

Hi

I have made a really tiny board for a CR2032-battery, where the silk for the battery goes outside the board limit. The silk outside the board is of no interest, but the question is; can I order this as is, or do I need to cut off the silk outside the board?

Re: Silk outside board

Reply #1 –
You should be absolutely fine.  The dimension layer is all that matters, really. They cut where that is.

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Reply #2 –
For one board, sure. But for 200 boards? Wouldn't the outsider silk reach another board? I have no knowledge how they are fabricated, but I surmise they are panelized onto a very large PCB prior cutting.

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Reply #3 –
If you are panelizing yourself, then you'd have to deal with it.
In theory, a fab should clip the silk outside the individual board before they panelize.  But I can't say anything for certain about dangerous prototypes.
If you are truly concerned, draw your own silk on a different layer and select that for gerber generation instead the layer that the current outlines are on.

Re: Silk outside board

Reply #4 –
A friend of mine did an order from oshpark and got the remnants of a neighbours silk on their board ;-)

Seems like it would be useful to be able to apply the dimension layer to the boundaries of all other layers at gerber generation, perhaps this is possible in Kicad, so many options in those dialogs.