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BOTTOM exposed trail to fill with solder

legnar
I use the PCB Editor v16.5 and want to leave the trail BOTTOM totally exposed, because when I mount the board, I want to fill the BOTTOM trail with solder to strengthen the capacity of current conduction. Dry on a sample photo attached
  • steve

     Add a line of the same thickness as teh track on the layer BOARD GEOMETRY / SOLDRMASK_BOTTOM and then follow the same path as the track. Then make sure this layer is included in your Gerber Output for Soldermask Bottom.

  • legnar
    No OrCAD Layout eu roteio a camada SMBOT (Soldermask bottom), mas no PCB Editor não sei como adcionar esse layer para ser roteado.
  • steve

     Use Add - Line, then Options (fold out menu on the right hand side) set the class, subclass and width as described above and then add the line over the existing track.

  • legnar

     Thank you helped me a lot, but I thought I would have to route the layer as I did in OrCAD Layout.

  • steve

     You still need to Route the connection on the Etch/Top or Bottom or whatever layer but if you want to expose the soldermask you need to draw that using lines. Your creating a layer that will be used to create the gerber file for soldermask, the same way it would be done using layout.

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