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mohan-bee - @Seve after fabrication the defaul...

mention after fabrication the default silkscreen size of components sucks

Started by mohan-beeAug 29, 202623 messages

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mohan-beeoriginal postAug 29, 2026, 5:13 AM

<@757706909351411845> after fabrication the default silkscreen size of components sucks

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mohan-beeAug 29, 2026, 5:13 AM

default is 0.4mm

mohan-beeAug 29, 2026, 5:13 AM

but the 1mm is ok

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SeveAug 29, 2026, 5:13 AM

Tru

SeveAug 29, 2026, 5:14 AM

Yea all our silkscreen is bad ye

mohan-beeAug 29, 2026, 5:14 AM

we need to tweek our font ?

SeveAug 29, 2026, 5:14 AM

Nah

SeveAug 29, 2026, 5:14 AM

Just default sizing

mohan-beeAug 29, 2026, 5:14 AM

hmm..

mohan-beeAug 29, 2026, 5:25 AM

i feel like the stroke width looks large for small components ,, what if we can have a strokeWidth ?

mohan-beeAug 29, 2026, 5:25 AM

i think kicad also have stroke width

mohan-beeAug 29, 2026, 5:27 AM

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SeveAug 29, 2026, 5:28 AM

Isnt it a size not stroke issue?

mohan-beeAug 29, 2026, 5:50 PM

yea this is a size thing,

mohan-beeAug 29, 2026, 5:50 PM

is this good to have 1mm default ?

mohan-beeAug 29, 2026, 5:52 PM

maybe 0.7mm ? R1 here is 0.7mm C1 is 0.4mm(default)

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SeveAug 29, 2026, 5:53 PM

Hard to say, what does kicad use for 0402s

mohan-beeAug 29, 2026, 5:56 PM

yea this is soo hard to decide

mohan-beeAug 29, 2026, 5:58 PM

Shared an attachment

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mohan-beeAug 29, 2026, 5:59 PM

0.4 vs 0.8

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mohan-beeAug 29, 2026, 6:03 PM

i feel like we can stick to 0.6

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SeveAug 29, 2026, 7:52 PM

yea

mohan-beeAug 30, 2026, 7:58 AM

<@757706909351411845> https://github.com/tscircuit/core/pull/3529

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