Design it like all of the components in my publicly available library, where the silkscreen defines the outer & inner edges of where the component surfaces meet the PCB. Shrink the component-component clearance to 1 mil, or 0 mil. This will allow you place, for example, some caps & resistors right up to & under some areas of a large PCB mounted RCA jack, but, it will not allow you to place components too close where the silk screen area may touch each other. Note that my library was intentionally designed like this for creating hand-held electronic devices where mounting area may be super constrictive.
_____________ Brian Guralnick ----- Original Message ----- From: Dom Bragge To: Protel EDA forum Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 11:10 PM Subject: [PEDA] footprint clearance checking I have a connector that could be viewed as a large "U" when placed on the board. If I want to place other components within this "U" shape (not overlapping the physical connector but within the "bounding box") what choices do I have: - permanently enjoying the 20+ clearance errors? (not preferred) - turning off clearance checking? (not preferred) - turning off clearance checking for that one connector whilst in that position (how?)? ( P2004 ) ===== Dom Bragge CID Snr PCB Designer Sydney, Australia Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
