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thanks for the detailed reply, Juku! Much appreciated. I got lucky and picked up a V2 controller, second hand, rather cheaply. I've experimented and used it with a basic IR toaster oven, with a bit mixed results, but it's only the start. so far I've only done a few prototype boards, so I'll see as I...

thanks people! I am just getting into SMD stuff, so this is new for me. (I learned all my stuff back in the days when you started by stuffing the R's and C's through the holes in the board one by one ...) so I appreciate the advice!

Juku, how do you get along with that Severin toaster oven you use? Does it heat with infra read? does it have enough power to solder a board with ground planes?

and usually solving issues at source is a good idea - it only needs a couple of gates ...

well, I looked the other day at Eurocircuits Panelise Guidelines: http://www.eurocircuits.com/Introduction-to-eurocircuits-standard-panels And in this case, they propose fiducials in the border of the panel, not per board. Of course, than means that positions of boards in panels is well defined. How...

there are degrees of "unknown". If you are talking about boards that might have slightly rough edges (say +/- 0.5mm) because of the way they are made, and you want to pack them in alongside each other, OK, that might be fixable by having the software look for fiducials for each board. But ...

Peter - all of that is perhaps *why* professional PCB assembly houses work with panels that have very clearly defined dimensions ... ?!

I say unto you ... "Keep It Simple ..."

juku .. they did that a long time ago I think!

> OK, extension not allowed. Hmm. As far as I can see, no restrictions are active. I don't know why it wouldn't work. maybe in the webserver config? sometimes they don't like the look of scripts anyway, no big deal. Let's try renaming ... also "The extension txt is not allowed" for "...

thanks, I found it in my mailbox, it will take some time for me to get used to the 'perl-world' I never used it before. I guess it's not possible to compile the script to an windows executable? It is, but it would still be command line. And to be honest I have never bothered. All you need to do: 1....

Rinus, I also mailed it to you.