[sdiy] No marking on resistors

[john slee]

Cheap fabs too. None of the usual China-based "$10 for 10x 100x100mm
2-layer 1.6mm PCBs" fab shops I've used in the last 5 or so years has ever
given me boards back where the silkscreen contaminated pads

Seeed Studio definitely don't. Have sent them maybe 30 or 40 sets of
Gerbers so far, and TBH while I try to keep silk away from pads in my
layouts (what's the point in chopping off part of a label anyway? Seems
counter-productive) I'm not exactly OCD about it

John

On 4 April 2018 at 15:25, <rsdio at audiobanshee.com> wrote:

> On Apr 2, 2018, at 2:19 PM, Richie Burnett <rburnett at richieburnett.co.uk>
> wrote:
> > Careful. Silkscreen printing underneath surface mount parts can
> interfere with them sitting flush on the board. There's also the risk of
> ink going onto the surface mount pads.
>
> Good fabs will automatically exclude silkscreen ink from the areas exposed
> by the solder mask.
>
> My final step in pcb layout is to hide all layers except the silk and
> mask, then move the text around (on its own grid) to maximize legibility
> while avoiding places where it will be a problem. But, then there’s the
> times when the fab changes the font or size...
>
> Brian
>
>
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