Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Don Y Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Feedthough/via that straddles (i.e., is bisected by) the cut edge of a PCB? Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 05:55:24 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 9 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 14:55:43 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3e83f33917ae365112bcadb5773a22f4"; logging-data="1215495"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+F9QDBNjotVXmwDHviN4p9" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:yaTxzrRrruY3Cr8p3cRgdIKYnQI= Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 1446 I can't see any way to do this, reliably. So, imagine a house won't let it through DRCs, regardless of diameter or weight of foil, etc. Or, is there another (not exhorbitantly pricey) technology for precisely cutting boards that would keep the structure (at least the part that is not lost to the cut) mechanically (and thus electrically) intact? Else, I will use another -- more expectantly reliable -- approach