Re: gEDA-user: PCB paste layer, revisited.

[Dave N6NZ <n6nz@xxxxxxxx>]

forgot to cc list

Dave N6NZ wrote:
> 
> 
> DJ Delorie wrote:
>> Maybe you could write a laser-paste exporter?  Then, you could ask the
>> user for the offset they need, and output whatever language you need
>> to run the laser directly.
> My current workflow is ps -> dxf via converter.
> 
> But really, the whole process should read a gerber -- that's the logical 
> place in the tool flow.
> 
>>
>>> OK, I will look that up, it sounds related.  But there is a reason I 
>>> thought that paste should be detached from pads, and that is that for 
>>> some cases you may not have 1:1 correspondence between pad and paste 
>>> shapes.
>>
>> That's why multi-pins have paste and mask specified separately from
>> copper, for each layer.
> 
> So how would all that be specified in the footprint?
> 
> -dave
> 
> 


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