Hi folks,
I have components with a central large GND pad in the middle and
standard pin pads around the edges. The paste stencil for these has
one large GND pad sized opening for solder mask. Then it has
several smaller (no copper layer) pads overlaid on that to create a
solder paste stencil grid (this is the recommended way of applying
solder paste because if you use a single large paste pad, there is
too much solder in the middle.
This works find to generate a paste stencil grid for the large GND
plane. However, Freerouter will no longer open the .dsn file. In
order to get freerouter to open the .dsn file, I have to change the
pads to be copper-layer pads instead of no-copper-layer pads. But
if I do that then I get DRC errors "Pad near pad" for each of those
pads (because they're superimposed on the solder mask pad.
Is there a proper solution for this?
Thanks,
Berwyn
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