Re: gEDA-user: PCB soldermask cutouts on solder side

[Michael Schewe <michael.schewe@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks Steve, but i know how to place and flip components on the bottom/far side of my board (its full with SMD there...).
What i meant with "As PCB lacks this feature" was not components on the bottom side but putting auxiliary area fills on one of the soldermasks so that a large 
area is free from soldermask so you can freely solder copper wires on signal lines, vias etc. there.

Michael


Stephen Meier wrote:
> Michael,
>
> PCB lets you flip the board over and put parts on the back side. It also 
> lets you flip parts (land patterns) from front to back and back to 
> front. Do you need help in doing so? If the part is on the back side... 
> it is the solder side solder mask that gets "holes drilled" in it to 
> expose the pads.
>
> Steve Meier
>
> Michael Schewe wrote:
>
> > component side of my board is full of conventional components, no 
> > place for additional pads/vias or wires, thats why i wand to solder 
> > them on the bottom side.
> > As PCB lacks this feature and there seems to be no tool for me to 
> > merge the 2 gerbers, i decided to hand-merge them with a text editor. 
> > Was not very complicated as the 2. gerber only contained 2 polygon 
> > areas which used only 1 D-code and the polygons are 1:1 translated in 
> > the corresponding gerber commands.
> > You can open attached soldermask gerber file with gerbv to see the 
> > result if you want.
> >
> > Michael