A great deal of the board homes available including Seeed as well as ITead studios have a fixed size for circuit boards before the cost goes up. A one-inch square board costs the exact same as a much larger 5cm x 5cm board, making panelized PCBs a fantastic method to get a lot more boards for the exact same amount of money. trying to panelize a board in Eagle with copy as well as paste is a chore without the ideal tools, though, so we’re delighted to see a fantastic panelization tutorial from [Victor].
To panelize one of his boards for a PCB order, [Victor] utilized one of Eagle’s individual Language Programs to duplicate the part names on the extra boards. After that, it was a basic matter of running a CAM task to produce the needed Gerber files.
Of program when the boards arrive, you’ll have to cut them besides each other. This can be made with whatever from a Dremel to a hack saw to a metal shear, however we’re wondering what other Hackaday visitors are utilizing to cut up PCBs. Leave a note in the comments with your favored technique of depanelization.