Couldn't open soldermask be achieved thru creating a surfmount pad that is really big and making it into an element? Or a surfmount pad with no size and a very large mask area?
If you just want to add heatsink area for a sot-223, this would seem to be good enough. Phil DJ Delorie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'd like to clear a polygon in a soldermask, because I'd like to > > have the option of soldering some sheet metal to the surface > > later. Has this recently been made possible in PCB, either through a > > key command, a command window entry, or even editing the layout > > file? > > Still can't be done. We've talked about it a few times though. >
