Placing a Mechanical-1 layer for Project 1

Author

Zach Barrett

Published

August 6, 2026

For Project 1, you will need to place a mechanical 1 board outline. This was only clarified in the lab last night, so for those of you who were not there please follow these instructions.

If you submitted project one before doing this, you will need to resubmit. This means saving to server again1 and submitting another Smart PDF. If you are out of submissions on canvas you should probably send Michael an email.

1 With a commit message like “Hello Michael please mark this one instead” or something.

Instructions

  1. First, select the mechanical 1 layer.

  1. In the toolbar at the top, select the line tool.

  1. Start drawing a line by snapping onto one of the breakaway tab points. 2

2 Make sure the green circle pops up to indicate you are locking to the breakway point (teal circle)

  1. Drag it out along the edge to the next breakaway tab point, make sure you make a right angle at the corners of the board

  1. Repeat for all edges.
ImportantDO NOT DO THIS

TipDO THIS INSTEAD

  1. Once you are done, you should select all of the lines you just made:

  1. Open properties and change the “Width”

  1. Set the thickness to “0.8mm”. Not 0.8 mils, 0.8 millimeters. You do this by putting “mm” after the “0.8” It will automatically convert that to mils for you.

  1. Once you do that, your board should look something like this:

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