If you're looking for good DFM manuals, check out protoexpress, otherwise known as Sierra Circuits. They're a professional board house in the USA with simple to complex board design support including high speed interfaces, uvias, etc.
On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Thomas Langås <thomas.lang...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 9:36 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I'm not opposed to this change. However, there are two schools of > > thought when it comes to board layout: strict layout constraints and no > > layout constraints. I tend to lean towards the latter but I've been > > doing this for 30 years so I am painfully aware of the pitfalls of no > > layout constraints and have a pretty good idea of what not to do. > > Should we choose to loosen the layout constraints for blind/buried vias, > > then we should be prepared for a serious tongue lashing the first time > > someone violates their board vendor's manufacturing limitations and ends > > up with a bunch of useless and likely expensive boards. Maybe at some > > point in the future we will have a complete constraint system that can > > cover all possibilities but until then we have to walk that fine line > > between power users and beginners. > > > Is there a good reason why not to build this by rulesets, and allow > people to define > their own rulesets within KiCAD. You can have a sensible default rule > that covers > the 80-90%, and allow the people who know more about this and what they > need > just remove the default rule and add their own advanced rules? > > Of course, this would imply that without any rules at all, it's just > willy nilly and > everything allowed. But isn't that the way design rules should be? If > you want > to try ice skating down a mountain, it might not be smart, but it's your > own > choice ;-) > > > -- > Thomas > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Remember The Past, Live The Present, Change The Future Those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future [JFK] kandre...@gmail.com Live Long and Prosper, Andrey
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