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Re: CERN work package 4 (Extend number of layers)

 

On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 12:34:49PM -0700, Rick Walker wrote:
> Yes it is possible.  The footprint definition has a long int mask which
> specifies the existance of a pad ring on each layer.  There is no GUI
> support.  I had to write an awk script to generate my BGA footprints
> textually, setting the hex value inside my generated footprint file. 

Totally unsupported of course :D kicad rules is 'you break it, you keep
the pieces'. However there are good probabilities that everything will
work (more or less) correctly in this particular case

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Lorenzo Marcantonio
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