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Subject:	Re: [geda-user] [pcb] why no clearpoly on silk
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On Wed, 18 Jan 2017, Peter Clifton (petercjclifton AT googlemail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:

>
>
>On 18 Jan 2017 11:11, "Nicklas Karlsson (nicklas DOT karlsson17 AT gmail DOT com) [via
>geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>      Maybe I got something wrong. Normally clearance is between
>      copper while the silk is painted on both?
>
>
>You are correct, but there is no technical reason why you can't make lines
>on silk cut into (clear against) polygons on silk.
>
>Doing this makes the code and behaviour more consistent, although there is
>not the electrical reason for requiring it.

I completly agree.

>This said, you can't necessarily extend the logic completely to match. For
>example, I toyed with connectivity based island removal - that wouldn't make
>sense on silk layers.
>
>Thinking about it, whilst you could use the "keep biggest piece" rule with
>silk, I'd be tempted to just start with "full polygons" only. (For the
>default flags if importing an old board).

You are right. So the full(?) set of rules with silk-poly vs. old files 
could be this:

Import-old would remove clear poly and set full poly. This would 
prepare for the case when the user sets the clear poly flag later.

Export-old would remove the full poly and add clear poly. Just to keep the 
looks of the old format, to get diff-free round trips. (Why I think it 
doesn't matter beyond the looks: old code would not cut into silk-polys 
and new code loading old files would overwrite the flags on load anyway.)

Regards,

Igor2

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