>> Anyone got a good guess what they mean by 'flashed pads'? I've asked them, >> but not got an answer yet (My guess are pads that are a different width >> than the trace lines. Their technical document says they use 'flashed >> pads' to recognise the ends of nets for electrical testing). > > Yes. "Flashed" as opposed to "drawn".
[snip rest of excellent description of flashed pads.] > If any of our wiki people cares to put most of this text in the wiki > somewhere, it might be useful for others. Thanks, Dan! Done: http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:pcb_tips FWIW, I added a whole new section to the PCB tips page. The section will contain general information about the technology of PCB layout and production, independent of the workings of gEDA/PCB or any other layout program. I placed your text there, along with a pointer to the glossarty. The hope is that the info contained in this new section will be useful to newbies. Everybody should please feel free to add more expository text which might be of use to folks learning about electronics. Stuart _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
