On 11/10/2010 2:11 AM, jean-pierre charras wrote: > Le 09/11/2010 22:30, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit : >> >> On 11/9/2010 4:11 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: >>> On 11/09/2010 02:35 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >>>> I just got DFM failure from my PCB manufacture for silk screen width of >>>> 0.001" >>>> for all the silk screen drawings on a board I just laid out. I checked >>>> all of >>>> the module silk screen widths and everything is 0.005" or larger. A quick >>>> check of the silk screen layer gerber file revealed the aperture being used >>>> was >>>> indeed 0.001". After some digging around, I found that changing the >>>> "Default >>>> pen size" in the plot dialog changed the silk screen line width. Is this >>>> the >>>> appropriate behavior? Setting the default line width to 0 did not fall >>>> back to >>>> the line width defined in the module. I would expect my silk screen line >>>> widths to be what I defined them in my module not the default pen size >>>> setting. >>>> At one time, I thought this was the default behavior. Before I file a >>>> bug >>>> report, I wanted to make sure I'm not missing something. Anyone else have >>>> any >>>> thoughts on this? >>>> >>>> Wayne >>>> >>> >>> Its not perfectly pertinent to your question, but I have found >>> >>> /scripts/setfont.sh >>> >>> to be useful after I have a board ready to plot. >>> >>> I have not stumbled onto your problem before. Maybe something has >>> changed, or I just missed it. >> >> I haven't laid out a board with the latest stable version so I can't say for >> sure but I don't remember having this problem with the previous stable >> version. >> >>> >>> >>> > From a UI perspective, I would not prefer to have to set the default >>> width to zero to say, "leave me alone". >>> >>> I would prefer to select a checkbox saying override the line-widths, or NOT. >> >> A check box would be preferable. Setting the line width to 0 is less than >> obvious to the user. Currently, setting the line width to 0 will set the >> aperture to 0 which in itself might be consider a bug. I confirmed this with >> BZR 2595. >> >> Wayne >> >>> >>> >>> Dick >>> > > Default pen size is used *only* to plot items that have no line width > specified. > Namely: > sheet references (if asked, not usual in gerber files) > and pads in sketch mode on silk screen. > Silk screen layers are the 2 layers that do not use filled shapes to show > pads, > when they are put on these layers. > So they use the default pen to plot pads. > > Other items must be drawn with their own line width, regardless the default > pen > size. > > An other behavior is a bug. > So no need to have a check box. > > I am unable to reproduce your problem on my boards (just pads on silkscreen > layers use the default pen).
Duh! My bad. It was silk screen on pads from a footprint that I imported. Thanks for the input. Wayne > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
