Silk screen extending past board outline

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My silk screen extends past the board outline. I understand this is a no-no:

only the design data in the Gerbers and not extra text or other things outside of the design outline

However, the component outlines are correct -- the components were placed so they overhand the board. This also works out great for the assembly diagram.

The result, of course, is that I’m quoted a board size larger than the board itself. Is there an easy way to trim the silk screen to the board size without changing the component outlines? I’m using Eagle.

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You will have to carefully review the layers that are used for each of the components that overhangs the board dimension, then adjust your CAM job such that only certain layers go into the top silkscreen. For example:

a) use the library editor, edit the Package, and assign the overhanging stuff to layer tDocu (or define a new layer: tOverhang)

b) adjust the CAM job such that tDocu does NOT go in the silk screen gerber (but probably tNames and tDocu do)

Jake