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Title says it all. What is the most complex PCB outline you ever designed?

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What is the purpose of this question? What useful information do you hope to get. It seems pointless and off topic to me. – Olin Lathrop Jun 15 '11 at 12:56
@Olin Lathrop: it's as much on-topic as this question, which hasn't been closed. – Federico Russo Jun 15 '11 at 13:52
your example is a community wiki question, which is reserved for these sorts of subjective discussions. This question should also be moved to the community wiki. – Madmanguruman Jun 15 '11 at 14:33
@Madmanguruman - Converted! – Kevin Vermeer Jun 15 '11 at 17:31

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Definitely this one:

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About 4cm x 4cm, 52 line segments. Most of the arcs (and a few very short straight lines) are not part of the required outline, but were necessary to make it millable, also from a panel viewpoint (think corners).

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when you talk about the panel, do you mean the small arcs on the slanting lines (they're the only ones on the bounding box)? Doesn't the PCB shop take care of this? – Federico Russo Jun 15 '11 at 14:48
@Federico - If I would have needed only 1 PCB, then the shop would puzzle a panel together and said arcs wouldn't be needed. But this was a 30k/year PCB, so we did an optimized panelization. We chose V-cut because it's cheaper and you can use more of the available area. This caused a diamond-shaped part which had to be removed where 4 PCBs touched. The arcs are necessary when you want the mill to reach the corners. You have to tell the shop how to do this, because they don't know what part of the outline is important for mounting or where components are placed. – stevenvh Jun 15 '11 at 15:08
thank you. Still, the rest of the outline looks weird, but I guess there's also a simple explanation. – Federico Russo Jun 15 '11 at 15:28

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