Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Clearing polygons in soldermask

["Phil Taylor" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Couldn't open soldermask be achieved thru creating a surfmount pad that is
really big and making it into an element?  Or a surfmount pad with no size and
a very large mask area?

If you just want to add heatsink area for a sot-223, this would seem to be
good enough.

Phil


DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> > I'd like to clear a polygon in a soldermask, because I'd like to
> > have the option of soldering some sheet metal to the surface
> > later. Has this recently been made possible in PCB, either through a
> > key command, a command window entry, or even editing the layout
> > file?
> 
> Still can't be done.  We've talked about it a few times though.
>