Altium and Board Cutouts, How is the info sent to the board house?

[FivePoint0]

How is a cutout of unusual shape e.g. d-sub shape communicated to the board house?

Is it by ticking the box "Generate Board Edge Rout Paths"?  If so what tool size?

Some people insist it should be drawn by hand on a mechanical layer.

[tszaboo]

2mm is considered as standard low cost. It is possible that the house will make the PCB for you if you give them the outline, it is possible they will insist on you supplying the gerbers with a 2mm thick lines layer. Why dont you just call them, and ask?

[free_electron]

you have  ad-shaped hole in the board ?

all you have to do is create the features from the board.

Design - Board Shape - Create Primitives from Board shape,

then select Include cutouts and send it to a mechanical , or better to the keep out layer.

the board house will read the GKO file and use that as contour. don't worry about size of the routing bit. the cam processor is smart enough to mill outside or inside depending on nesting.

[FivePoint0]

then select Include cutouts

Cheers "Include cutouts" is the key!  Gerber is created as expected now.

Thanks.