Hello all. I’ve recently imported an Altium file into KiCAD and both top and bottom solder masks are missing, at least in the 3D view. Below is a photo of what I mean.
I understand that the F.Mask and B.Mask are subtractive, meaning the assume the mask is everywhere, and graphics on this layer actually remove the mask in those areas. But those layers have no graphics in this imported layout, and I’m still seeing no solder mask. How do I “subtract” it in?
It’s a third party tool so I can’t help. Maybe someone else knows about it.
In version 5.99, the unstable development version a.k.a nightly builds, it’s possible to use a native importer integrated into KiCad. You’ll probably would get better results with that. But it comes with all that “unstable development version” entails, although that’s in a pretty good shape now. The files won’t be backward compatible.
Thanks for the reply. I have downloaded a nightly to try the native Altium importer. It fixed the issue with the solder masks but has some other quirks. I will raise those questions in separate topics as needed.