Steve, Thanks for the confirmation. Misery loves company!
Bob From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Weigold Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 6:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [kicad-users] Re: SIlk screen covers pad mmabshaffer 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] <mailto:kicad-users%40yahoogroups.com> , kajdas <mailto:kaj...@...> <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 > > Bob, Probably not what you wanted to hear, but I found the same thing. I've only done one board on KiCad, so I'm not an expert by any stretch. I edited the footprints I was using. Steve
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