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[Jean-Paul Louis <louijp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Courtyards were created for manufacturing reasons. By using automatic design enforcement of the courtyard rules, this allowed automatic machines to place the parts without trouble. RefDes and any other marking are for convenience of people. So they are two disjoint set of rules.

Just my $0.02,
Jean-Paul
N1JPL


> On Oct 25, 2016, at 4:25 PM, Oliver Walters <oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hey Jan,
> 
> The courtyard should extend around and *fixed* parts of the FP. As the user can move the REFDES and the name text after placing the footprint, it doesn't make sense to extend the courtyard around them.
> 
> It should extend around the fixed silkscreen, IMO.
> 
> I think the first option you have provided is the correct way of handling it.
> 
> Regarding some visual KLC examples, I think that's a fantastic idea.
> 
> Regards,
> Oliver
> 
> 
> On 26 Oct 2016 04:57, "Jan Krieger" <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi everybody!
> 
> I'm currently discussing a PR for a footprint with @feichtinger :
> https://github.com/KiCad/Fuse_Holders_and_Fuses.pretty/pull/5
> 
> There, the question was raised, how the Courtyard has to be drawn. As I understood it so far (and did for my components), the Courtyard should be around the pads/component-outline. But should the Courtyard also keep 0.25mm distance to the Silkscreen-lines (not the REF-text, as far as I understand)?
> 
> To illustrate this I added two images to this mail:
> - Fuse_SMD2920, as I understood it
> - fuse_Shurter, as @feichtinger interpreted the rules
> 
> So: How should I interpret the KLC?
> 
> BTW: Should we maybe add example images to the Wiki-Page of the KLCs that explain the different things? I could start preparing some and then we can discuss starting from that.
> 
> best,
> JAN
> 
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