Re: gEDA-user: PCB: how to clear soldermask from entire footprint

[Ales Hvezda <ahvezda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Delivery-Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 20:42:29 -0500
From: Steve Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

David Koski wrote:

>On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 19:50:09 -0500
>DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>>Good point. I'll probably do that. But the pads are rounded (they
>>>don't have to be) and I would rather have a straight edge of the
>>>mask.
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>>You could put a pad lengthwise just off the edge of the board, and use
>>its mask.  The relief would have to be large enough to cover the whole
>>edge connector.
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>Will that effect the DRC or cause the vendors DRC to fail?
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>David
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If the dummy Pads demensions are large enough to pass the drc then PCB 
won't generate an error. Instruct the vendor to remove the dummy pad and 
then it won't effect them as well.


Steve Meier