Post on 03-Jan-2016
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Tutorial to Correct Unwanted Silk Screen Overlaps in the Final PCB
Arijit Banerjee
Rob
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VLSI 2
The IssueWhen you see the routed layout it looks OK After you submit in the Advanced Circuit and have the “results” email, if you look into the PDF attached full Layout view you may see some unwanted Silk Screen texts are overlapping with your documentation
Rob
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VLSI 5
How to Correct the Unwanted Silk Screen Issue?You need to modify the location or delete the “type” attribute in the Decals in the routed PCBStep 1: Right Click and Select components in the routed PCB viewStep 2: Right Click one of the components and select “Edit Decal”: You will see a popup showing “This operation can only performed in DRC off mode”: Click OK and the Decal editor will open upStep 3: Edit the “Part Type” or “Type” location by selecting properties and reducing height to 50 and setting it to 5 points width: also move the attribute to a location of the drawing where it does not overlap wit the other documentation: Otherwise delete itStep 4: Save and exit from the decal editor: it will ask to make changes to all the decals: click “ALL” to apply changes
Rob
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VLSI 12
Corrected PDF Screenshot from Advanced Circuits Once done with the correction of Silk Screen
overlapping issue, extract and submit all the layer views to Advances circuit
Now after getting the “results” email click and see the PDF of all the layers and you will see that all the Silk Screen overlapping issue is gone