- Mechanical stability and strength
- The panel should be constructed in such a way that it can survive all the handling processes during PCB production, transport and the final PCB assembly without breaking apart.
- Manufacturability and ease of Assembly
- Avoid panels that are hard or impossible to produce ( take care of even copper distribution) or which creates extra problems during assembly.
Tips and advise to create stable panels.
- Panels with break-routing as board-separation method
- Here the panel border is the most important feature to create mechanical stability
- A break-routed panel without a panel border will break-up into parts very easy during handling and is therefor not advised.
- We recommend the use of a minimum panel border of 5.00 mm base material
- Remember the 2.00 mm between the edge of the panel and the edge of the circuit for the cutter path, so the total recommended minimum border is 7.00 mm.