On May 8, 2006, at 2:17 PM, Wouter van Ooijen wrote: >> Have some clearance between the pads or they will merge. > > I hope I can avoid that, we will see. > Perhaps you can draw some lines (gaps, actually?) on the mask layer so that even though the pads are merged you still have mask lines between your potential dots... I think you'll be in trouble if you ever stop hand-soldering? Maybe not; you have to be doing reflow, and you could just leave that area with no paste at all. Um. Do people version-control their board files, complete with something visible on the board? that seems like it would be a good idea :-( BillW -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist