"Kozlyk, Terry" wrote: > Just curious....how does your contract manufacturer take to any traces under > 0603 & 1206 resistors ?? > > Ours complains because of the risk of tomb-stoning when any feature, such as > silkscreen, vias, traces are under > these descretes .....again..." in search of an ideal world "..... > > Regards > TDK We don't allow silkscreen or vias under discrete SMDs, but traces are not a problem. The soldermask adds only about 1mil to the height of the traces, compared to the height of solderpaste of about 4mils. Volkmar