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PCB Layout Terminology
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btrueblood
Mechanical
Master pattern is a drawing showing the circuit traces, pads, holes for each layer of copper of each board. In the bad old days, circuit boards would be photo-etched directly from a master pattern of the traces made on mylar film.
Plan view is the view of the assembled/populated circuit board, as if you were looking straight down on it. Terminology comes from the building/civil types, where an elevation view shows the house as if you were to take a picture of it standing nearby, plan view is as if hovering above it in a balloon.
Plan view is the view of the assembled/populated circuit board, as if you were looking straight down on it. Terminology comes from the building/civil types, where an elevation view shows the house as if you were to take a picture of it standing nearby, plan view is as if hovering above it in a balloon.
MacGyverS2000
Electrical
In today's parlance, they want your Gerber files (master pattern) and component placement diagram (plan view).
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