Join this webinar to clear up the confusion between fabrication and assembly panels, their purposes, and their impact on PCB production. Fabrication and assembly panels serve distinct roles in PCB production. A fabrication panel maximizes raw PCB output with minimal material waste, focusing on manufacturability. In contrast, an assembly panel optimizes PCB placement for efficient automated assembly, considering rails, fiducials, and component orientation. This webinar will demonstrate how DownStream Technologies’ CAM350 and BluePrint tools simplify the design process for both panel types. What You’ll Learn in the Webinar: Assembly Panels • How a PCB designer or contract manufacturer can easily design assembly panel drawings • Produce these drawings from the CAD database for greatest accuracy • View component and mill/score/mill tab location problems in 2D and 3D • Remove the need to step and repeat Gerber layers and bring into multiple programs to create an assembly panel • Easily work with unique board shapes and custom mill tabs • Optimize for the greatest utilization and therefore cost. • Create accurate PDFs of the resulting drawings Fabrication Panels • Take an assembly panel and step it into the fabrication panel drawing • Create an optimized fabrication panel drawing that will result in the best utilization • Work with features common to fabrication drawings; thieving, pinning holes, coupons, PE targets • Create borders, keep-out areas, standard panel sizes, etc., and save for re-use • Produce files for film or direct imaging Speaker: Ray Fugitt, Technical Sales Engineer, DownStream Technologies With 40 years of PCB industry experience, Ray has worked extensively in fabrication, CAM engineering, and technical training. At DownStream, he specializes in supporting and training users on BluePrint PCB and CAM350.