If you are using Camtastic, this has a silkscreen over pad DRC check and will remove offending ink without having to change the footprint.
Either way, any decent board house should do the same check before manufacture. They often use CAM software that checks many aspects of the design of the PCB (from the Gerber perspective) before they start. Obviously these checks don't remove fundamental design mistakes, but can highlight such things as isolated copper, slithers, annular ring problems, and if you supply a netlist, problems with connectivity. I'd suggest checking with your manufacturer, and it is always worth passing the design through camtastic before sending it off. Protel has a problem where it can't understand vias that exist on plane splits, camtastic can find these and warn you. J. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brad Kosiance Sent: 27 October 2005 18:24 To: [email protected] Subject: [PEDA] SILKSCREEN Overlay. I have a PCB component footprint that includes information on the overlay layer. On a particular component I do not want the overlay layer to show because it overlaps a solder pad on another component. Can the overlay layer be selectively turned on and off a footprint or must new footprints be created with various degrees of overlay information? Brad. ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
