Areas without solder mask in PCAD 2004

[Miguel Giménez]

I'm trying to have a copper polygon without solder mask, so I copy the
polygon from the Top layer to the Top Mask layer. When I generate the
Gerber files, the Top Mask layer only contains the original contents
(pads). I've tried putting in this layer lines, texts, pours and so on,
but they never appear in the Top Mask gerber file.

żIs it a bug, or I'm missing something?. I've googled, some say they got
it (but don't tell how) and others say that you must use tricks. I've
tried these, including an auxiliary layer, to no avail.

Thank you.

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Regards
Miguel Giménez

 

[Miguel Giménez]

El 22/08/2011 14:24, Miguel Giménez escribió:

I'm trying to have a copper polygon without solder mask, so I copy the
polygon from the Top layer to the Top Mask layer. When I generate the
Gerber files, the Top Mask layer only contains the original contents
(pads). I've tried putting in this layer lines, texts, pours and so on,
but they never appear in the Top Mask gerber file.

żIs it a bug, or I'm missing something?. I've googled, some say they got
it (but don't tell how) and others say that you must use tricks. I've
tried these, including an auxiliary layer, to no avail.

Thank you.

I reply myself. PCAD works perfectly, my mistake was using an outdated
Gerber destination directory, so none of the changes could be seen.

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Regards
Miguel Giménez