I sent off some Gerber files from pcb today for fabrication and
discovered no easy way to generate solder paste Gerbers with
reduced-size apertures for things like the exposed die-attach pads on
QFN packages. (There's a Freescale app note at
For QFN exposed pads, do this...
Make a pad for each paste spot
Add one big pad with the nopaste flag that covers them all
That way you can control the paste separately from the copper
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Somehow I knew there was an obvious easier way, but I got impatient.
Though I suspect writing my patch took about as long as modifying all
the footprints by hand or writing a script would have, splitting up the
paste is preferable anyway. Next time, perhaps it'll be a script doing
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