Layout of circular boards

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Hello,

I’m involved with a university project that will eventually culminate in a circular board, about three inches in diameter. We’ll eventually go with a larger boardshop for the production runs (potentially goldenphoenix), but we’re considering using BatchPCB for the testing rounds.

I’m wondering if it’s fair game to pack the circles in a tighter hex pattern with suitable padding (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c … 2d.svg.png), or if I should arrange them in a grid. I would manually lay them out myself, and not just order multiple copies of the design through the website.

Has anyone tried this before? Do you think if I put a nice outline on the top silk around the board, that they would be able to figure it out and route the circles properly?

Thanks,

Matthew

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I’m pretty sure that if you give them one Gerber file, they’ll route around the outside of it. No inside cuts. So you’d probably get either a nice solid flower-shaped PCB, or the smallest square that fits everything.

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How are those Pro75 rocket motors working out for you? :wink:

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henryhallam:

Was that rocket motor comment directed at me? If so, I have no clue what you’re talking about.

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Nor I.