On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 01:25:17PM -0400, harry eaton wrote: > .. > > 3600: 36 mil thickness, analgous to pin diameter > > 3000: 30 mil clearance from any polygon > > 3600: 36 mil solder mask, same size as pad > > > > Note that the solder mask is the same size as the pad. Turn off the > pins/pads to > > see the mask or produce a gerber file and view it. > > > > The last time I had a board done the fab shop required at least a 3 mil > "solder > > mask relief". > > Select all pads, then view the solder mask. Now enter the command > ":ChangeClearSize(Selected,+3,mil)" > > The library element is supposed to start with correct values; but whoever > created > this element didn't do it quite right.
Component fixed in CVS. However, I noted that that particular element was defined using "pad_newformat" syntax and that in this case, parse_y.y, line 911 actually will set the soldermask relief to be the same as the pad size since MASKFRAME is defined to be 0 in globalconst.h -Dan --
