Hi, so 3 years ago I managed to put together a very basic board. I am now working on something a bit more involved. Just wondering if what I am doing will work and I am confused on a few things as well.
First this board will not be perfectly rectangular it has notches in 2 corners and a few in the sides. I read that making a polygon and selecting cut-out will work in removing these unwanted areas. I used the miter option to round a few corners. I still have a few corners that need rounded but I cant do a polygon for those. Well they are part of the polygon I put in for what I want cut but the corner going to the pcb is what needs rounded. See bottom corners.
Second this board requires edge connectors which I drew in with wires. These are to be on both top and bottom in equal spots. I actually just copied the entire group and pasted up a bit higher and then changed them all to bottom and then lowered them in place and then adjusted them. The main thing I am not liking here is my components (header pins) I put in do not change sides when I view bottom. I understand it is showing me "the layers". However I really need these header pins to accurately show me what they will look like on the bottom w/those bottom edge pins. I need to connect wire traces from both sides of those header pins.
Some traces get routed from top side header pins to top edge connectors but most pins get routed from bottom side header pins to edge connectors. I used header pins because it was all I could find that matches the hole sizes for the parts I am using. The edge connectors will have to be gold plated as well.
Will I have to run wires from these components as a bottom side looking at the components in reverse?
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