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Subject:	[geda-user] [pcb-rnd] user editable PASTE layer (was: Re: user editable mask
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Hi all,

now you can manually add extra paste on your tricky connector footprint, 
on your high power tracks or manually remove paste from large pads or 
where you need the original copper/finish exposed for whatever reason. We 
have both editable mask and paste in pcb-rnd now.


On Sat, 22 Apr 2017, Nicklas Karlsson (nicklas DOT karlsson17 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:

> First you say paste layer won then you talk about solder further down but since usually wherever there is a opening in the solder resist there should also be solder paste.

It was the mask that worked by the time I wrote that mail and I promised 
to get the paste woring the same way "soon".

Well, "soon" is now.

As of r8431, the paste layer can be edited the same way:

- adding and removing paste anywhere on the board

- full control over the auto paste layer: can turn it off, can invert it

- any order and combination of positive/negative, auto/manual paste 
logical layers can be set up to form a physical past layer group

- the two paste side don't even need to have the same logical layer 
structure

- by now the cross section view allows the user to easily manage 
the logical layers even within a layer group: drawg&drop reorder, add new 
logical layers, remove existing logical layers.

It now takes less than 30 seconds to set up a complex set of custom +- 
paste layer combination using the GUI. Might publish a video tutorial 
later on.

(The actual coding for the editable paste layer in core took about 15 
minutes because by now we have a strong, generic infrastructure for 
composite drawn layers. It takes more time to remove all the obsolte 
special behavior paste layer code from the HIDs)

Regards,

Igor2

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