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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, Peter, this suggestion is not to remove the possibility to have
the silk, just to not enable the silk on through holes by default,
which rarely makes sense anyway.

I have been wondering about this default option many times and always
find myself correcting the footprint when I realize that it is
enabled, which can become a bit tedious. So I vote for default silk on
pad off too.

2016-04-13 1:39 GMT+02:00 Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Yeah, I can think of edge cases where it might be desirable. I'm just having
> trouble imagining why it would be *default*. You can enable that layer manually
> on these touch pads in this case.
>
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 09:07:16AM +0930, Peter Wintulich wrote:
>> 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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