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[Peter Wintulich <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,
I had been court by this.
There is one scenario where it may be use full, though SMT pads would 
more likely be used.
This is for touch panels where the solder mask and Silk screen are over 
the pad area with no exposed metal.

Regards Peter

On 13/04/16 08:57, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> On 4/12/2016 5:53 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> > Quick question... does anybody know why we are putting silkscreen over PTH pads
> > by default? And can we change this? Obviously they shouldn't be manufactured
> > this way, so we're depending on either the user to remember to choose "Subtract
> > soldermask from silkscreen" or on the fab to do it, both of which aren't
> > necessary dependable...
> I would give users and devs a few days to respond and if no one
> complains too loudly go ahead and remove the offending code.
>
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