On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 09:30 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > > Can you enlighten me: Why should the distance to soldermask be > > greater at corners than at straight copper edges? > > Pythagorean theorem. If the mask opening is rectangular, the corner > is sqrt(2) times further away. > > IMHO the right solution is an round-cornered mask as well.
See my point about X-Y axis of registration. I think for most machines, these are likely to be independent, this square mask clearance would be better. Even when producing by hand, the square + square should be easier to line up acceptably well. Peter _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
