Re: gEDA-user: How do you create soldermask?

[Dan McMahill <dan@mcmahill.net>]

On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 01:25:17PM -0400, harry eaton wrote:
> ..
> > 3600:  36 mil thickness, analgous to pin diameter
> > 3000:  30 mil clearance from any polygon
> > 3600:  36 mil solder mask, same size as pad
> >
> > Note that the solder mask is the same size as the pad. Turn off the
> pins/pads to
> > see the mask or produce a gerber file and view it.
> >
> > The last time I had a board done the fab shop required at least a 3 mil
> "solder
> > mask relief".
> 
> Select all pads, then view the solder mask. Now enter the command
> ":ChangeClearSize(Selected,+3,mil)"
> 
> The library element is supposed to start with correct values; but whoever
> created
> this element didn't do it quite right.

Component fixed in CVS.

However, I noted that that particular element was defined
using "pad_newformat" syntax and that in this case, parse_y.y, line 911
actually will set the soldermask relief to be the same as the pad size
since MASKFRAME is defined to be 0 in globalconst.h

-Dan

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