No B.Mask for board setup "components on front"
Bug #1841294 reported by
Rene Poeschl
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KiCad |
Fix Released
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Low
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Seth Hillbrand | ||
Bug Description
If one selects components on front in the board setup dialog then there is no mask layer generated for the back side. This would mean that this setup is not viable for THT or mixed SMD/THT production.
Either that setting should indicate that this is for smd only boards or the mask layer should be generated.
See: https:/
Revision history for this message
| eelik (eelik) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in kicad: | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| milestone: | none → 5.1.5 |
| tags: | added: pcbnew starter |
Revision history for this message
| KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in kicad: | |
| status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
| assignee: | nobody → Seth Hillbrand (sethh) |
| Changed in kicad: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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Is it really only for SMD only? SMD only would need back mask as much because there are usually vias and traces there. THT only can more easily have all traces on front side and wouldn't necessarily need mask on back.
Anyways, nowadays the back mask layer should be always generated because the manufacturers most often want that, even if it's empty/full. If there's no layer they have to ask whether to fill it or not. Although we have seen in the user forum that even an empty layer is problem for some manufacturers (or at least some workers there), but at least it's less ambiguous. And it can always be easily deselected manually.