Mask Layer - Copper Layer

[Rene_Poschl]

You can put a zone on the mask layer where you do not want to have solder mask.

If you want a more complex form (Like the skulls),
you could make your touch points as a special footprint.
Either by using the footprint editor (manual drawing or footprint wizard. The later might only work in nightly), svg2mod or bitmap2component to achieve this.

Layout challenge: make this contact pad with KiCad?

I’d like to duplicate this pattern as a device: [image] The challenge is that the gold-colored meandering bit is not a conductive trace; it’s the non-conductive gap between the gray-colored conductive areas. For those who care, this is where the conductive pad of a rubber keypad makes contact on the PCB. I my head I picture this as two adjacent filled areas separated by a meandering “keep-out” line. How best to do this in KiCad? Also, there are 30-ish of these, so I’d like to make it a foot…