I am looking for (Cheap ) houses that offer milling/cutting services for PCB cutouts.
Not much luck so far except at rather high cost.
Any suggestions ?
Search this site, there are quite a few threads on this topic.
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Okay, I see you are looking for cutouts, that's different.
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What exactly are you looking for?
DirtyPCBs will normally take almost anything you throw at them without added cost (though if they don't like some of your milling cuts, they'll just ship the boards minus the milling they didn't like. For example, they won't do milling that crosses the copper - you just get the board back minus the milling). PCBWay is almost as cheap, and would contact you (in broken english) if there was something about your design that they couldn't do or that didn't look correct (and they let you do castellated pads) - though they may charge extra for a design that was more demanding to fabricate.
What i am looking for is someone who can make a pcb with cut or milled slots to form "fingers".
It is for a connector which i wish to have individual pressure for each finger so that contact distance will not affect the adjacent connection.
I can do this with a dremel slitting saw on strip board but wish to find a commercial producer.
How many boards?
If not too many, and you have a table router.
Make a template with the hole shapes and sizes, design around a 1/8" bit.
Use double stick tape to position the template on top of the PCB.
Route the holes one at a time, turn off the router before proceeding to the next hole.
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How is this not just a board with a funky outline that you either draw on the board dimension and/or milling layer?
I think almost any board house should be able to do this no problem.
Try iteadstudio.com, they have done odd shapes for me in the past.
If you use Eagle for PCB design, itead has a .cam file you can add to the CAM folder and it will create the gerber files they expect.
larryd:
How many boards?If not too many, and you have a table router.
Make a template with the hole shapes and sizes, design around a 1/8" bit.
Use double stick tape to position the template on top of the PCB.
Route the holes one at a time, turn off the router before proceeding to the next hole..
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I tried an online quote from PCB pool who have offered milling options in the past but not now it seems.
Quote was for £ 4,800.
Similar from ITEAD was about £30 inc free shipping.
Neither offered milling/cutting options.
EDIT
My boards are 500 x 500 mm when i changed that to 5 x5 mm price was a reasonable £46.
I suspect a problem with the website.
EDIT
PCB pool does offer routing now i have found it but i find it confusing what is being offered.
When submitting files do you just give board outline and wait for a quote ?
500x500mm is very large. Hundreds of thousands of square millimeters. Comparing that to 25 mm squared is obviously going to give you a big price difference.
There are probably many PCB places that can't even accept an order that big because it's bigger than the biggest panel that fits on their machines.
By specifying that size, you are well beyond what most hobbyists need with free shipping. That's a specialist job that's worth at least one phone call to the supplier to ask them about it.
My bad, i forgot the DP.
Worked out my milling problem now , it was simpler than i thought.