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From: Kai-Martin Knaak <knaak AT iqo DOT uni-hannover DOT de>
Subject: Re: [geda-user] Stencil tooling holes
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 04:29:01 +0100
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Ed Simmons wrote:

> Looking at these in PCB, it's not obvious how to view the opening of the
> stencil layer, is this possible?

I'd export gerbers and view the *_toppaste.gbr and *_bottompaste.gbr with 
the utility gerbv. This is for viewing only.

A different approach would be to directly look at the footprints with a text
editor. There are lines like this:

Pad[0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 39.37mil 39.37mil 2.0000mm "1" "1" "nopaste"]

Note, the flag "nopaste". This means, there is no hole in the stencil for this 
particular pad. For some reason, I seem to have set this flag deliberately on 
all pads of my fiducials. If you want to have a hole in the stencil, just 
remove this keyword. This leaves an empty flagstring string "" in this case. 
Alternatively, you can unset the flags via the command line utility of the GUI. 
But I find the text editor more intuitive in this case.

Hope, this helps.

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