> Please explain this ps-bloat setting, sounds useful. ps-bloat offsets all edges by a given amount (100 = 0.001") to compensate for offsets made by the process (printing, etching). In your case, if you needed the laser to run 5 mil inside the pads, you'd set the ps-bloat to -500. Of course, it only affects postscript output.
Maybe you could write a laser-paste exporter? Then, you could ask the user for the offset they need, and output whatever language you need to run the laser directly. > OK, I will look that up, it sounds related. But there is a reason I > thought that paste should be detached from pads, and that is that for > some cases you may not have 1:1 correspondence between pad and paste > shapes. That's why multi-pins have paste and mask specified separately from copper, for each layer. > I'm advocating for a true paste layer. What's an anti-paste layer? > Do I want one of those, too? anti-paste removes paste. Thus, you could use anti-paste to cut up a big thermal pad, or not put paste on unpopulated parts. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user