Re: gEDA-user: Barred solder mask in PCB

[Ethan Swint <eswint.ramu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/13/2009 02:34 PM, Ben Jackson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 01:10:40PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>    
>> Another option is to rebuild pcb without Xrender support, and see if
>> it's the rendering that's the problem.  Or export to Postscript.  IIRC
>> the gerbers use the dicer, so if the dicer is bad, the gerbers should
>> be bad also.
>>      
> They do, but they operate on the full board.  The clue about being
> zoomed in suggests that it has to do with first cropping the poly to the
> visible area and then dicing it.  That would also explain why the
> artifacts move around (as the visible objects, many of which seem to
> be placed on an angle, intersect at different offsets).
>
>    
The barring also happens at full-view (zoomed out), but Gerbers are just 
fine.  The Gerber soldermask layer is a negative image - maybe that 
makes the difference to the dicer?  I'll work getting a "sample board" 
for public consumption.

Thanks,
Ethan


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