Edge plating

[harryweb]

Hi,

I need to make RF circuits.
This kind of circuit need edge plating for top and bottom ground planes.
How to do this ? how to let my ground planes touch the board edge ?


Regards

[Andrew Larkin]

Beats me.

Closest I can get is to set the default design rule to 0 edge clearance but this doesn't look like it quite gets there.

I assume that panelising the boards you will end up with some tabs somewhere so maybe design the board within a larger carrier PCB and use plated slots where you need them and mouse bites on the tabs to allow you to break off the carrier.

[harryweb]

This is not an easy way to make edge plating. Not a good way too.
May be place it on a whish list ?
Regards

[Tom S]

You can set the power plane zone to be locked to board edge, but then uncheck the option to exclude board edge. Partial resist opening would need resist graphics along the edge.