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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Defining larger cut-out holes in PCB?
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On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Richard Rasker (rasker AT linetec DOT nl)
[via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I wondered: is there a way to define a larger cut-out hole in a PCB?
> My latest PCB has SMD tact switches on the front, behind polyester front
> foil. The PCB also features an OLED display.
> As the display is higher than the switch plungers, I wish to have it
> 'peek through' a routed rectangular hole in the PCB, but so far, I can't
> find a way to define holes like this.
>
> I tried defining the cut-out as an extra 'outline' rectangle within the
> main PCB outline, but my PCB house (Eurocircuits) doesn't recognize it
> as such -- at least not with their automated tools.

I have done a few rounds of this with oshpark and others. Adding cuts
to the outline layer works for most of them but a lot of web2.0 tools
do not render it correctly.

Submit your files and get a person at their end to check them with a
proper gerber viewer. The web connected ones are just not quite there
yet.

> Has anyone dealt with this before, and if so, how was the cut-out
> defined? Or is it a matter of defining the cut-out on a separate layer,
> and telling my PCB house that this should be routed out?

Here was my frustration as a newbie to using cuts.
The cut is defined by the outside of the area your traces. Outline of
the board is most often defined to the middle of the trace.

> Thanks in advance,
>
> Best regards,
>
> Richard Rasker
>



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