Yeah, as a mundane user, I also vote for default silk on pad off. Marcos
On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 7:24 AM, Nick Østergaard <oe.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah, Peter, this suggestion is not to remove the possibility to have > the silk, just to not enable the silk on through holes by default, > which rarely makes sense anyway. > > I have been wondering about this default option many times and always > find myself correcting the footprint when I realize that it is > enabled, which can become a bit tedious. So I vote for default silk on > pad off too. > > 2016-04-13 1:39 GMT+02:00 Chris Pavlina <pavlina.ch...@gmail.com>: > > Yeah, I can think of edge cases where it might be desirable. I'm just > having > > trouble imagining why it would be *default*. You can enable that layer > manually > > on these touch pads in this case. > > > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 09:07:16AM +0930, Peter Wintulich wrote: > >> Hello, > >> I had been court by this. > >> There is one scenario where it may be use full, though SMT pads would > more > >> likely be used. > >> This is for touch panels where the solder mask and Silk screen are over > the > >> pad area with no exposed metal. > >> > >> Regards Peter > >> > >> On 13/04/16 08:57, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > >> >On 4/12/2016 5:53 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote: > >> >>Quick question... does anybody know why we are putting silkscreen > over PTH pads > >> >>by default? And can we change this? Obviously they shouldn't be > manufactured > >> >>this way, so we're depending on either the user to remember to choose > "Subtract > >> >>soldermask from silkscreen" or on the fab to do it, both of which > aren't > >> >>necessary dependable... > >> >> > >> >I would give users and devs a few days to respond and if no one > >> >complains too loudly go ahead and remove the offending code. > >> > > >> >_______________________________________________ > >> >Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >> >Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > >> >Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >> >More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >> > > >> > >> > >> -- > >> > >> Peter Wintulich > >> > >> Voicetronix Pty. Ltd. > >> Suite 6, Level 1, 977 North East Road, > >> MODBURY 5092 > >> South Australia > >> AUSTRALIA > >> +61 8 8264 2005 > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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