On Jan 21, 2010, at 7:14 PM, Brian Lalor wrote:
>> The restrict area could work well for Brian because it would prevent
>> the powerplane and any trace from connecting and leaving an island.
>> Since Brian doesn't need the pads itself to go away that would seem
>> like a good solution. Put a top restrict circle on each pad in the
>> library for the parts you can't solder and you should be good to go.
>
> This is the approach I’m going to try, now.
Even better, it appears that I can just draw a rectangle on the
tRestrict layer in the layout editor. I don’t need to modify the
component itself! Woo hoo! Still not a perfect solution, but at
least I can specify regions on a per-layer basis that I know I can’t
get to.
Thanks, everyone!
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