> I somehow feared this while I wasn't sure: so it is not posible to > manually define the paste mask on a footprint?
No. What I do is use a perl script to create a "paste board" that has all the paste apertures as element pads, but nothing else. Then I can manually edit them all, and just dump a gerber for layer 1 copper as the paste gerber. > I need this to create the footprint of a part with thermal central pad. Use one pad for each paste spot you need, then one overall pad with the "nopaste" flag to fill in the gaps. > Hand-soldering is a nightmare-option with 0.5mm pad-pitch ;-) No it's not, I do it all the time. Even when I use a paste stencil and reflow, I often have to re-solder the pins for various reasons. Just use enough flux and a big tip and it works just fine. > If nothing else helps, how difficult would it be, to just create an > attribute that triggers a stub that fetches and inserts a > handcrafted gerber-snippet from a file instead of running the > generator? Not that difficult, but the trick is to make it user-friendly :-) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
