Courtyards and silk screens
开云体育Can I safely ignore 'errors' abut courtyards
overlapping and 'warnings' about silkscreens (the outlines of
components) overlapping? Some courtyards are quite a lot larger
than the parts, and I don't know what their function is. The
boards will be hand-populated and soldered. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only Best Wishes John Woodgate Keep trying |
开云体育Thank you very much. On 2024-09-28 15:39, jpgendner via
groups.io wrote:
Hello, -- OOO - Own Opinions Only Best Wishes John Woodgate Keep trying |
开云体育For your conscience, you could always disable the courtyards error checking:File > Board > Design Rules > Design for Manufacturing > Courtyards overlap ==> Ignore -- Regards,
Tony On 28/09/2024 16:22, John Woodgate
wrote:
Can I safely ignore 'errors' abut courtyards overlapping and 'warnings' about silkscreens (the outlines of components) overlapping? Some courtyards are quite a lot larger than the parts, and I don't know what their function is. The boards will be hand-populated and soldered. |
开云体育In addition to signifying required mechanical clearance (+placement tolerance), the courtyards can also account for the "shadowing" by tall components. This mostly affects PCBs with SMDs that will reflowed by (predominantly) infra-red radiant heating.-- Regards,
Tony On 28/09/2024 16:22, John Woodgate
wrote:
Can I safely ignore 'errors' abut courtyards overlapping and 'warnings' about silkscreens (the outlines of components) overlapping? Some courtyards are quite a lot larger than the parts, and I don't know what their function is. The boards will be hand-populated and soldered. |
开云体育Sounds good. Thanks. On 2024-09-28 17:05, Tony Casey wrote:
For your conscience, you could always disable the courtyards error checking: -- OOO - Own Opinions Only Best Wishes John Woodgate Keep trying |
开云体育Good point. Thanks. On 2024-09-28 19:18, Andy wrote:
As other have said it's really down to you. The only thing to watch out for is silk screen on the actual solder pads which you don't want to happen. Andy On Sat, 28 Sep 2024 15:22:16 +0100 "John Woodgate" <jmw@...> wrote:Can I safely ignore 'errors' abut courtyards overlapping and 'warnings' about silkscreens (the outlines of components) overlapping? Some courtyards are quite a lot larger than the parts, and I don't know what their function is. The boards will be hand-populated and soldered. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only Best Wishes John Woodgate Keep trying -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only Best Wishes John Woodgate Keep trying |
开云体育Most PCB fabs will remove this anyway. If you don't want to leave it to them, KiCad can do it for you:File > Fabrication Outputs > Gerbers > Gerber Options > Subtract soldermask from silkscreen ==> Enable -- Regards,
Tony On 28/09/2024 20:18, Andy wrote:
As other have said it's really down to you. The only thing to watch out for is silk screen on the actual solder pads which you don't want to happen. Andy On Sat, 28 Sep 2024 15:22:16 +0100 "John Woodgate" <jmw@...> wrote:Can I safely ignore 'errors' abut courtyards overlapping and 'warnings' about silkscreens (the outlines of components) overlapping? Some courtyards are quite a lot larger than the parts, and I don't know what their function is. The boards will be hand-populated and soldered. -- OOO - Own Opinions Only Best Wishes John Woodgate Keep trying -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software. |
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