I know this subject has been discussed in several of the forum threads but I could not find a definative answer to my question
I have a design I have done in Eagle and submitted to the DRCBOT. Within Eagle, it all fits within a 2 x 2 " border with margin. I have generated gerbers and checked in pentalogix and confirmed the copper, silkscreen and stop layers all stay withing this 2 by 2 " border.
Batchcom, however, reports it as over 2" x 2" so is adding $2.50 per board to my cost
Anyone have any advise. In case anyone at SFE is looking at this, the design name is light3
Thanks for your reply. I did move the R4 text. and did some other squeezing, but I still cannot see why DRCBOT is thinking the board is so big. I looked att all 6 gerber files + the DRD file in Pentalogix and cannot see any X or Y demension bigger then 2". Eagle also tells me the same thing. Are you adding some margin to the sizing to account for Saw Kerf or something?
John
PS I would not worry about $2.50 extra except that I am going to order 10 of these boards once I confirm the prototype is OK [/img]
Thanks for your reply. I did move the R4 text. and did some other squeezing, but I still cannot see why DRCBOT is thinking the board is so big. I looked att all 6 gerber files + the DRD file in Pentalogix and cannot see any X or Y demension bigger then 2". Eagle also tells me the same thing. Are you adding some margin to the sizing to account for Saw Kerf or something?
John
PS I would not worry about $2.50 extra except that I am going to order 10 of these boards once I confirm the prototype is OK [/img]
I haven’t seen your board - but have you made sure that the board starts at 0,0? For some reason Eagle always seems to place the lower left corner of boards in the negative x and y.