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Cropping silk screen that goes beyond the PCB border

Hello, I tried searching through your forum to see if there was any way to automatically cut out any silk screen that is not within the border.  The only result I could find was back in January 2011 and the answer was that it was not yet implemented but you should have an option in 7 to 10 days.

Is this feature available?  If so, could you point me in the right direction as I can't seem to find how to do it?

Thanks a lot!
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Thanks for your question.


To crop silkscreen objects be the border, please make sure to first define a border layer.

Note:  The border must be a closed-continuous line.


The easiest way to create a border layer is to import your data (Gerber, Drill, ODB++, etc.), and then use the command "Generate Border Layer":

(A) Go to menu:  Fabrication / Detect Border (Automatic)...

(B) Select an object on your PCB border.


FAB 3000 will automatically create a closed closed-continuous line, and place it on the border layer.


Now when your run "Silkscreen Optimizer" it will crop any silkscreen objects within the border.

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