Sprint Layout Spacing

[smilan]

Hi, I would like to print my first PCB design that I made with Sprint Layout 6 and I have a question: According to the manufacturer the min track/spacing for low coast PCB is 6/6 mil.

Does it means that if I'm working on a grid of 158.75 um (6.25mil) the black lines between the green tracks and the space between one track to the other should be more of one grid division?

 

[Harpo]

Seems so. 0.16mm trace width / spacing can get you 30 pcb traces in parallel in between the body ends of a single 1/3W thru hole resistor ... Not a home etch job.

 

[JohnRoberts]

6/6 sounds like traces and spaces... so traces fatter than 6 mil and spaces larger that 6 mil...

Back in the day I had to live with 20 mil rules.

JR

 

[ruffrecords]

6/6 definitely means 6 thou tracks and 6 thou gaps. I remember back in the 80s 12 thou track and 12 thou gap was state of the art but I still prefer to use 20 thou tracks for audio.

Cheers

ian