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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hmmm… I actually changed that on purpose because I thought the other was misleading.

We build the masks for the mask layers differently depending on whether or not the pads have any copper layers.

We don’t treat the pad clearance differently based on that constraint.

Now it’s true that we only check clearance between two items on the same copper layer, but that’s subtly different than “not on any copper layer”.

Perhaps too subtle?


> On 5 May 2018, at 20:19, Eeli Kaikkonen <eeli.kaikkonen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> 2018-05-03 23:39 GMT+03:00 Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx>>:
> I’m happy to clean up the dialog if JP wants to check in what he has.  Just let me know….
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> It looks cleaner now, but I noticed that the information is a bit misleading. It says "solder mask and paste values are used only for pads on copper layers" while actually it seems to be true for all the clearance values, also the net pad clearance. That would make the text simpler and shorter: "clearance values are used..."
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> I still don't know why the value fields should be editable for non-copper pads because they are not applied anyways. Well, this is nitpicking, so it can be ignored...
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> Eeli Kaikkonen