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Date:	Fri, 24 Jan 2014 12:31:18 +0100
From:	Gabriel Paubert <paubert AT iram DOT es>
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Subject:	Re: [geda-user] Solder-thickened traces
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On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:12:36AM +0100, Jan Kasprzak wrote:
> 	Hello,
> 
> while examining a controller board from an old washing machine :-) I have
> discovered that they have some of the high-current traces partly without the
> solder mask and thickened by adding a solder (HASL) to them. How can I do
> this in pcb?

I do this regularly for RF signals (solder mask, at least run of the mill 
variety, increases transmission line losses at microwave frequencies). 

However, I do this in a very kludgy way: I generate an additional (internal) 
copper layer and then I merge the Gerber files manually, first removing the 
via pads on the additional layer.

It should be possible to do it automatically, for example if layers 
in PCB names matching ".*topmask.*" and ".*botttommask.*" were merged
with the automatically generated soldermasks at export time.

	Cheers,
	Gabriel

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