Re: gEDA-user: Clearing mask to mount shields

[Darrell Harmon <dlharmon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I went with 1 via every mm. So far, I have 2110 vias, so I should be able
to stay under 2500 by the time I finish routing it.

I created a footprint by drawing the lines and vias on the board, and then
selecting all the parts of the shield box and creating an element from it.
It worked fairly well. I had forgotten that selection in pcb has been fixed
and I could hold shift and select one piece at a time. That is why I was
looking for some other way. Thanks for all the help. I will post pictures
and of course design files when I get this finished. It is a DC to 1.8 GHz
spectrum and network analyzer. Unfortunately, it is not very reproducible
due to some of the parts such as the YIG oscillator and the bandpass
filters which were machined from blocks of copper.

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Darrell Harmon
http://dlharmon.com