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On 9/25/20 9:45 AM, John Peck wrote:
> I use pstoedit a lot:
> 
> pstoedit -xscale 0.5 -yscale 0.5 -ssp -flat .01 -f pcb $(whatever).pdf 
> $(whatever).pcb
> 
> Can you get your silkscreen outline into pdf (or ps)?  Maybe you could 
> then just play with the scaling in pstoedit to make a bigger version of 
> the outline.  You'll then have to bring the output into PCB and "move 
> selected to current layer" after making the outline layer current.

   I think I've gotten it.  In Inkscape:

   (bring object in)
   path->break apart
   path->union
   path->outset (then ^) to expand the blob)
   path->stroke to path

   The result is a perfect outline of the object.

   Then export to eps, then use pstoedit.

   This seems to work rather well.

               -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA