DJ Delorie wrote: >>> This was fixed at one point, such that pcb itself would remove >>> the silk over pins and pads, but I haven't migrated that code >>> into the HID version yet. > > We changed our minds about this. We changed PCB so that it showed > silk over pads if that's what your design calls for, so if you see > silk over pads on the screen, you'll get silk over pads on the board. > > The magic we chose to go with to deal with the fabs that can't handle > cuts is to convert all cuts to multiple polygons instead, so that we > never have to use cuts or negative layers. That was what we used to > remove the silk, and too many fabs didn't like it. > > Which fab is it? Are they unable to fix the problem themselves?
A DRC check for silk on pads would probably be good. In my past life, we always had in house reviews of the gerbers and weren't allowed to send them to a board vendor until there was no silk on the pads -Dan _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
