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How to expose arbitrary copper rectangle for cap-touch (tried, but covered by TopSilk)
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Geoffrey Plitt 6 years ago
I am trying to create a small board with 12 exposed-copper rectangles for a music project. Each copper rectangle is desired to be an exposed-copper area for capacitive touch with a human finger. I've done 2 JLCPCB orders with a design I thought would work, but both times the rectangles were covered by Silk. I don't understand how to specify a "hole" in the silk to expose the copper rectangle. To be specific, I'm drawing these rectangles on the "Top Layer" so the copper is there, in the right shape. But since it isn't a pad, it's being considered a trace or something, and hence covered by the TopSilk, no matter what I draw on TopSilk layer. Happy to share screenshots or actual EasyEda or Gerber files if it helps. There must be a way to tag the rectangle as a pad or something to expose it. Or I'm open to any other suggestions, thanks!
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andyfierman 6 years ago
Just place a pad then set its attributes in the right hand panel as being smd on the top layer and as rectangular. Set the dimensions to form a square. If you need to connect it to a track on another layer then use a short track away from it and place a via at the end of this track. To expose an area in a copper flood use the solder mask editing tool. For more info see: [https://easyeda.com/forum/topic/Solder-mask-37e879c088e945bf89ddf40e8bf4013b](https://easyeda.com/forum/topic/Solder-mask-37e879c088e945bf89ddf40e8bf4013b)
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Geoffrey Plitt 6 years ago
Thanks! I'm playing with it now. I see how to make a pad and then use attributes to change size to a big rectangle, but I don't see any attributes for "SMD" -- am I missing something?
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andyfierman 6 years ago
You have the choice of "All Layers" or a single layer then you select top or bottom. For more information please see the Tutorial.
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