On Wednesday 09 August 2006 04:21, DJ Delorie wrote: > For one of my recent footprints, I added an 0.01 mil silk where the > physical part was, so I could verify the pads and such. It got me to > thinking, maybe we could special-case "thin" silk to be used for the > assembly drawing? I.e. if silk is <0.1mil, it's not drawn on the > regular silk print, but is drawn on the assembly print. For the GUI, > it's drawn just like it is now. > > I'd rather have a special layer just for assembly, but that means > adding to the Element file format and major changes to pcb to support > it all. The thin-silk change is a hack, but a small hack and no file > format changes are required. > > Thoughts? Should we wait until the hard "more layer types" change is > made, or add the hack now? Wait. One of the most common requests I hear from Cambridge users is for a mechanical layer in PCB. Even if it does require major backwards-compatibility breakage, I think that it's worth doing as soon as you guys can find the time to do it. A little hack now is a huge mess to clear up in 6 months time, in my experience! Peter -- Fisher Society publicity officer http://tinyurl.com/o39w2 CUSBC novices, match and league secretary http://tinyurl.com/mwrc9 Quake II build tools maintainer http://tinyurl.com/fkldd v2sw6YShw7$ln5pr6ck3ma8u6/8Lw3+2m0l7Ci6e4+8t4Eb8Aen5+6g6Pa2Xs5MSr5p4 hackerkey.com
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