Hello, Whether you are generating your own gerber files from EAGLE software or having Sunstone do your file conversion for you, there are steps you must know to generate your files and layer information that you must provide in order to ensure the accuracy of the conversion. One way to generate your...

Hello, To generate CAM output from PADS software, open the .pcb in PADS and then Go to File > CAM: The ‘ Define CAM Documents’ window will open and here you can click on the various CAM documents to choose the manufacturing outputs for your project. Choose ‘ Run ’ to generate the selected files. To ...

Question: “I received an email stating my Quick Turn PCB order was holding due to ‘blowouts’ in my NC Drill file. What does this mean and how can I resolve it?” Answer: ‘Blowout’ is a condition caused by holes being placed to close together. By trying to drill the holes too close together, it cause...

Quick Turn Products, NC Drill, & Blowouts Question: “I received an email stating my Quick Turn order was holding due to ‘blowouts’ in my NC Drill file. What does this mean and how can I resolve it?” Answer: ‘Blowout’ is a condition caused by holes being placed to close together. By trying to drill ...

NEW DFM ADD-ONS for EAGLE and VALUEPROTO! DFM Add-Ons for EAGLE are an EAGLE-format set of Design For Manufacturing (DFM) Rules files, written in accordance with Sunstones manufacturing criteria for 2 layer ValueProto designs. These DFM Rules files are made available to you at no cost. EAGLE users c...

Hello! As many of you know, we now perform a design rule check on our Quick Turn multilayer orders. This was started sometime after the PCBexpress line began and although this information does not appear on the PCBexpress website, the DRC is performed on those orders as well. The process of running ...

Hello, Here is an example of an outline notch on a Quick Turn pcb - see attached image Outline_a.jpg. Here is a close up of the notch itself - see attached image Outline_b.jpg. The third image is a shot of the outline notch along with the actual route patch (route path shown in RED; outline itself i...

Hello Cinot, The outline can be square, round, rectangle, triangle, and some slightly unusual shapes as long as the other manufacturing rules are followed; like the notch rule, etc. For more information follow this link: Quickturn Printed Circuit Boards You can also post one here as an example and I...

Hello all, One thing to add here is that Altium may produce two types of drill files, one in ASCII format (.TXT) and one in EIA-RS244 format (.DRL). The TXT - ASCII format is preferred since we can open, read the text & numbers, and resolve issues. The EIA-RS244 format is not readable in a simple te...

Hello, As Sal said, the outline can be placed initially on any layer, just be sure that you select the proper object layer when generating the file using the cam processor. I've attached a document that will help explain how to specify the board outline during the design process. If you have questio...