On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Stefan Salewski <m...@ssalewski.de> wrote: > On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 11:53 +0200, Pawel Kusmierski wrote: > > Dear fellow GEDA-users, > > Can I get pcb to either treat a layer other than the default silk as > > non-metal > > (so it would not short pads and mess up nets), > Please note, your SUBJECT may be misleading... > > No, currently we have only one silk layer. You may "miss-use" other > copper layers for that task -- it may work when that layer is not in > your real copper layer groups, but unfortunately it still connects to > vias and can generate shorts. I did that for visual marks, distinct from > other silk marks, and I copy that layer to silk before gerber > production. (Some of us hope that sometimes we will have general propose > layers, so that we can select type and other parameters separate...) > Thanks for your answer Stefan. I have my visual marks just over vias, and it shorts them together, so I will look for some other solution.
Is anybody willing to elaborate on how difficult would it be to modify the pcb source code to color-differentiate three or four silk layers and be able to selectively hide/show them? Kind regards, -- Pawel Kusmierski _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user