Re: gEDA-user: Polygon islands in PCB

[Dave N6NZ <n6nz@xxxxxxxx>]

Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 00:27 +0000, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> 
>> pcb will tolerate a linewidth set to to zero. A few months back I did 
>> zero width pads with large clearance to expose some copper text. The fab 
>> did not complain and the mask contained holes as expected.
> 
> Copper text (with mask) is cool - something it would be nice for PCB to
> support.

Hey!! This could be good for exposing copper for those SMT voltage 
regulator parts that use the copper as a heat sink.  It is not supposed 
to be masked, but I've always done some kind of custom footprint 
kludge... this is cool.

-dave


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