gEDA-user: Drawing lines in soldermask layer?

Darrell Harmon dlharmon at dlharmon.com
Sat Jun 23 21:56:57 EDT 2007


Ben Jackson wrote:
> Sierra Proto Express prefers the board outline be a 10 mil line in
> the soldermask layer.
>
> Is there any way to draw directly in the soldermask with PCB?
>
> Barring that, can I make a component that's got my board outline in only
> soldermask using width/mask/clearance/etc tricks?
>
>   
For sierra, you can just draw the outline with a 10 mil line on the top 
copper layer. I do it all the time. I just got a board back Thursday 
that I submitted that way.

In the future it would really be nice to allow drawing on the soldermask 
layer.

Darrell Harmon


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