>>>>> "joeft" == joeft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> David Kuehling wrote: >> reading through the manufacturer's design rules, I cannot find any >> comments on how much distance silk text should keep from vias. Just >> wondering, whether there problems one should be aware of (like silk >> detaching and geting to places it doesn't belong?) Or can vias just >> be overprinted? >> > If the vias are tented (covered with solder resist) you can print over > them, although the ink will run on occasion and decrease the > legibility of the text. (Vias are tented by default with pcb.) If > you are printing small text (< "100%") I would stay clear of vias if > you want all the silk to be readable. I set all the text to 70% due to size constraints. Well, keeping vias away from text will be quite annoying since text is almost everywhere :) Do I only have to keep the text away from the drill hole only (plus an additional 0.1mm added by the manufacturer) or from the copper annulus as well? David -- GnuPG public key: http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~dvdkhlng/dk.gpg Fingerprint: B17A DC95 D293 657B 4205 D016 7DEF 5323 C174 7D40 _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
