Homebrew PCBs

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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