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[Marcos Chaparro <nitrousnrg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, as a mundane user, I also vote for default silk on pad off.

Marcos

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 7:24 AM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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