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difference between solderpaste_top vs pastemask_top

frank mpbc
frank mpbc over 5 years ago

Hello,

In the pad editor, I see the word "pastemask_top" for the steel sheet stencils for the solderpaste.When I open a .dra in Allegro, I see in the color dialog both pastemask_top and solderpaste_top.  I don't see solderpaste_top in the pad editor.

What is the solderpaste_top?

Frank

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  • DavidJHutchins
    DavidJHutchins over 5 years ago

    With the .dra open in Allegro, try using Setup>Subclasses... to see if 'solderpaste_top' is a user-defined subclass, I don't see it in any of the .dra's I just openned...

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  • frank mpbc
    frank mpbc over 5 years ago in reply to DavidJHutchins

    It is in a .dra I got from Ultralibrarian.com.

    I posted the output of setup->subclasses.

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  • frank mpbc
    frank mpbc over 5 years ago in reply to frank mpbc

    I opened two.dra files that were generated from the Wizard. They do not have solderpaste_top. I put a screen capture of the color dialog below.

    The file from ultralibrarian is to make this stencil and footprint for a Texas Instruments chip:

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