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Silk Off The Board, Wont The Fab House Screw Up?

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Mechatrommer:
i can turn off the marking (text) but not the silk (semicircle shape) in diptrace. i'll check again if there's any layers trick there. if it spills out to neighbooring board, it will be problem if it hits on top of smd mask, if there's any. but i think my board is ok since all of them through hole on that side. so soldering will be on another side. i will make the "my selected fab house later" famous if they spill the silk to another board, they should crop it, yea! they should.

Dr_Ram:

--- Quote from: Mechatrommer on September 30, 2011, 04:13:50 pm ---i can turn off the marking (text) but not the silk (semicircle shape) in diptrace.

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Here is something else you can try: use gerbv, the well-known gEDA gerber viewer. What makes it special is that it's one of the few free viewers that actually allows you to delete pieces you do not want and reexport in RS-274X format (it does very clean RS-274X exports). I have used gerbv to fix precisely this sort of problem for many folks who sent me their PCBs with bits of knob etc. sticking out in their silk.
Why not leave it to the fab house to do this? The board houses normally do crop anything outside the board outline but they can mess it up if silk overflows into an adjacent board on a panel, especially in a multi-design panel.

48X24X48X:
They will crop anything outside of the board outline.

Mechatrommer:

--- Quote from: Dr_Ram on October 05, 2011, 04:45:10 am ---Here is something else you can try: use gerbv, the well-known gEDA gerber viewer. What makes it special is that it's one of the few free viewers that actually allows you to delete pieces you do not want and reexport in RS-274X format (it does very clean RS-274X exports). I have used gerbv to fix precisely this sort of problem for many folks who sent me their PCBs with bits of knob etc. sticking out in their silk.
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thumb up! i thought i can do more detailed cropping, ie cut only some part of the object. but i lose the whole semicircle, its ok at least another alternative. thanks for your suggestion. btw the linux and windows version are separated, i only download for windows its version 2.5.0:

linux: http://gerbv.gpleda.org/index.html
windows: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gerbv/files/


--- Quote from: Dr_Ram on October 05, 2011, 04:45:10 am ---Why do this? The board houses normally do crop anything outside the board outline but they can mess it up if silk overflows into an adjacent board on a panel, especially in a multi-design panel.

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because in the post i stated i'm afraid the fab will screw up, but since most people say it will be cropped, then i'll just leave it hanging there.

ivan747:

--- Quote from: mikeselectricstuff on September 29, 2011, 09:41:48 pm ---If you're ordering multiple boards it's possible it may spill onto an adjacent panel, however I'd expect that the most likely action is they'd just crop it.

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What if you send a dimension layer to them. That would indicate the board ends at XY point and all the remaining silkscreen should be cropped because the chunk of board where the remaining silkscreen is either goes to the bin as excess material or it extends to the adjacent board, something nobody wants to let happen.

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