Hi Brian, et. al., Do you know if Kicad uses only apertures or does it also draw pads?
The reason I ask, is that it would be easy to change the apertures, but drawings may be much more difficult. Thanks, Rob Brian Sidebotham wrote: > > > 2009/11/2 Rob Frohne <[email protected] > <mailto:rob.frohne%40wallawalla.edu>>: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > We use an LPKF engraving machine to make solder stencils out of thin > > circuit board material and so we need a Gerber file with footprint pads > > that are the correct dimensions (different from the mask dimensions) to > > use to make the solder stencils. > > > > How can I best do this with Kicad? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Rob > > Hi Rob, > > I don't think you can at the moment. We send the paste layers to a > laser cutting company who then do the pad reductions for us. Generally > the reduction depends on how thick the stencil is due to the package > technologies and the package that the pad is a part of. > > So different pads can get different reduction percentages. > > However, it would be a great bonus for KiCad to have an overall > reduction percentage selectable when plotting paste layers. > > Best Regards, > > Brian. > > -- Rob Frohne, Ph.D., P.E. E.F. Cross School of Engineering Walla Walla University 100 SW 4th Street College Place, WA 99324 (509) 527-2075 http://people.wallawalla.edu/~Rob.Frohne/
