Re: gEDA-user: Silkscreen over pads again

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

DJ Delorie wrote:
>>>  This was fixed at one point, such that pcb itself would remove
>>>  the silk over pins and pads, but I haven't migrated that code
>>>  into the HID version yet.
> 
> We changed our minds about this.  We changed PCB so that it showed
> silk over pads if that's what your design calls for, so if you see
> silk over pads on the screen, you'll get silk over pads on the board.
> 
> The magic we chose to go with to deal with the fabs that can't handle
> cuts is to convert all cuts to multiple polygons instead, so that we
> never have to use cuts or negative layers.  That was what we used to
> remove the silk, and too many fabs didn't like it.
> 
> Which fab is it?  Are they unable to fix the problem themselves?

A DRC check for silk on pads would probably be good.  In my past life, 
we always had in house reviews of the gerbers and weren't allowed to 
send them to a board vendor until there was no silk on the pads

-Dan




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