I guess it all depends on what the PCB manufacturer does but in my case the 
pads are not silk-screened so there is no harm. It also makes sense to me that 
pads should not be silk-screened.
Martin

---- mmabshaffer <[email protected]> wrote: 
> 
> Martin,
> 
> I looked at the gerber files and the unwanted lines are there! Please look at 
> one of your gerbers and see if they have the unwanted lines also. 
> Bob
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- In [email protected], kajdas <kaj...@...> wrote:
> >
> > I used these parts before and the way I understand it is:
> > that the pads do not get silk-screened so it does not matter.
> > Fixing them will not change anything(?).
> > Martin
> > 
> > ---- mmabshaffer <bob.shaf...@...> wrote: 
> > > I have noticed that many footprints in the library include silkscreen 
> > > component outlines that cover that component pad. This seems like a 
> > > problem to me. Before I edit all the library footprints to remove these 
> > > component outline I thought I would check with this group of users to see 
> > > if I'm missing a concept. An example of such a footprint is the "-1206" 
> > > footprint in the "ref-packages.mod" library.
> > > Thanks,
> > >  Bob
> > >
> >
> 
> 

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