Swell Pads in gerebr viewr

[ali_asadzadeh]

Hi
I'm new into Altium Gerber viewer and editor, I wanted to Swell Pads in the Gerber viewer, How should I do that?

[julianhigginson]

You mean you want to increase part pad size in the gerbers??

How about paste screen and soldermask openings? do they need to change too?
And, is this for all parts or just one?

Really, this seems like the kind of thing that would be better done in the PCB editor where you can make sure any changes still conform to board design rules.

[tautech]

Hi
I'm new into Altium Gerber viewer and editor, I wanted to Swell Pads in the Gerber viewer, How should I do that?

In the Pad editor, same as in CS and shown in this post:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/circuit-studio/non-circular-pads-holes/msg1145128/#msg1145128

[ali_asadzadeh]

Thanks for your response, I just wanted to reduce the size of pads for making laser cut stencil, If you know how to do it just tell me, I do not wanna do it in the PCB file and I have my reasons.

[tautech]

Thanks for your response, I just wanted to reduce the size of pads for making laser cut stencil, If you know how to do it just tell me, I do not wanna do it in the PCB file and I have my reasons.

One of the PCB Mechanical layers can provide this for you as can the one of the PCB Output files can too.
You might just have to turn them on.

[ali_asadzadeh]

Thanks, please share the details? a simple example would help