[Kicad-developers] Silk on pads

2016-04-12 Thread Chris Pavlina
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 wh

Re: [Kicad-developers] Silk on pads

2016-04-12 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
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 > solde

Re: [Kicad-developers] Silk on pads

2016-04-12 Thread Peter Wintulich
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

Re: [Kicad-developers] Silk on pads

2016-04-12 Thread Chris Pavlina
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. > The

Re: [Kicad-developers] Silk on pads

2016-04-13 Thread Nick Østergaard
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 i

Re: [Kicad-developers] Silk on pads

2016-04-13 Thread Marcos Chaparro
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 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 sens

Re: [Kicad-developers] Silk on pads

2016-04-13 Thread Lorenzo Marcantonio
On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 07:56:14AM -0300, Marcos Chaparro wrote: > Yeah, as a mundane user, I also vote for default silk on pad off. It's harmless anyway since 99% of the time the silk will be removed where there is not solder mask (either during plotting or during fabrication). Still I have disa

Re: [Kicad-developers] Silk on pads

2016-04-13 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 4/13/2016 8:03 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 07:56:14AM -0300, Marcos Chaparro wrote: >> Yeah, as a mundane user, I also vote for default silk on pad off. > > It's harmless anyway since 99% of the time the silk will be removed > where there is not solder mask (either