Em Qua 19 Jan 2005 01:13, Randall Nortman escreveu: > I would like to create areas of bare copper, with no soldermask. In > particular, I'd like to create grounded guard bands around the edges > of my board to protect against ESD during handling of the board. To > see what I'm trying to do, have a look at the last two slides of: > > http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~benedict/pcbpres.pdf > > As far as I can tell, only pads seem to clear the soldermask. Is it > possible to get PCB to clear the soldermask over a trace or polygon? > > Thanks, > > Randall Nortman
AFAIK, no. I sometimes do it to increase the current capability of a trace. To do it, I use the postscript output, convert it to .sk with pstoedit and opens it with sketch, and there I edit the way I want (and place some logos, figures, and stuff). And then export to .ps and send to my fab.
