Re: gEDA-user: Polygons in PCB

[Anthony Shanks <yamazakir2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry that was a mis-statement.

Is there anyway to place vias that have a soldermask clearance MORE than 0?

By default, when I place a via, it has zero soldermask clearance.

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Gabriel Paubert <paubert@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 09:18:56AM -0800, Anthony Shanks wrote:
>> Is there a way to make a square polygon with round edges in pcb?
>>
>
> Not to my knowledge, I have done it by cutting the corners at 45 degrees
> and adding a non polycon-clearing zero length track at the corner (in one
> case I also used an track drawn with the arc tool, but I don't remember
> why, perhaps because there was a component pad/pin in the area).
>
>> One more unrelated question. Is there a way to place vias with a
>> default soldermask clearance less than 0?
>
> Yes, I almost exclusively use tented vias. Enable the soldermask layer
> and press Shift-K repeatedly until the via is fully covered. Or edit
> the pcb source file, manually or with a script.
>
>        Gabriel
>
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