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Re: Color of PCB substrate in realistic mode

 

There is a bug report regarding this with a suggested patch. Ideally some
color choosing dialog is needed, such that the user can tune the appearence
for himself.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1325748
Den 21/07/2014 14.09 skrev "Andrew Zonenberg" <azonenberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Right now the bare FR4 substrate is drawn in the same color as the
> soldermask so trying to see details of soldermask cutouts (for example,
> when designing a fiducial or PCB antenna that needs mask clearance
> around it) is difficult. Does anyone else find this hard to see?
>
> It should probably be displayed in some kind of yellow/tan/brown color
> as that's what actual un-masked FR4 looks like (for example, around the
> fiducials in
>
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Front_of_Raspberry_Pi.jpg
> )
>
> --
> Andrew Zonenberg
> PhD student, security group
> Computer Science Department
> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
> http://colossus.cs.rpi.edu/~azonenberg/
>
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