gEDA-user: "nopaste" flag (was: Fiducial)

[John Griessen]

joeft wrote:

>>> I think it is important but I'm not sure when I'll have time.  I 
>>> wonder if maybe just a "nopaste" flag for pins/pads is enough. 
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>>> so actually, I ended up looking this instead of sleeping like I should have 
>>> been doing.
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> Having the paste patterns shown explicitly and having a way to 
> explicitly create a paste pattern would be the general way to do it.  
> Same thing for the solder mask.  There have been lots of times where I 
> just wanted a rectangle cleared of solder resist. that is not tied to a 
> part.


It should be possible to create a no soldermask area by defining a polygon of a
not-same-group-as layer, then changing the soldermask clearance to suit, then
not sending that layer to the fab, so you get no copper there either?

Where there's a will, there's a way...and maybe later some direct editing of
soldermask and paste layers WOULD be a good idea.

John Griessen