Is there a command that will only selected vias of a certain size? 50% of my vias are 35 mil holes, the other 50% are 28 mil holes, and they are all intermixed so "select all" is not all that useful?
On Saturday 29 May 2004 02:17 pm, Dan McMahill wrote: > On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 01:19:06PM -0400, Bob Paddock wrote: > > How do I had solder mask clearance to selected via's? > > I tried selecting them then doing "ChangeClearSize(selected,+3,mil)" but > > nothing happened. That command only seems to work on pins&pads. > > 1) Make sure you have the soldermask visible when you invoke that action. > Otherwise you'll change the clearance to copper not soldermask relief. > > 2) The value you put in determines the radius of the circular soldermask > relief. So for example if your via copper diameter is 40 mils, this is > a copper radius of 20 mils. To have a 5 mil soldermask relief around > the via, specify a 20 + 5 = 25 mil value for the soldermask. So > > :ChangeClearSize(selected,25,mil) should produce the right result. > > The syntax of "+3" means increment the current soldermask relief radius by > 3 mils while the "25" syntax means set the radius to an absolute value of > 25 mils. > > Now, it does seem that it would be more desirable to have "+3" mean "make > the soldermask relief 3 mils larger than the pad size", but thats not what > it does currently. > > -Dan -- � � � � � � � � � � http://www.softwaresafety.net/ � � � �http://www.unusualresearch.com/ http://www.bpaddock.com/
