Working with the Silk To Silk Clearance Design Rule on a PCB in Altium Designer
Created: March 23, 2017 | Updated: July 02, 2021
| Applies to versions: 18.0, 18.1, 19.0, 19.1, 20.0, 20.1 and 20.2
Now reading version 18. For the latest, read: Working with the Silk To Silk Clearance Design Rule on a PCB in Altium Designer for version 21
Rule category: Manufacturing
Rule classification: Binary
Summary
This rule defines the minimum clearance allowed between text and other objects on a silkscreen layer.
Constraints
Default constraint for the Silk To Silk Clearance rule.
- Silk Text to Any Silk Object Clearance - specifies the minimum permissible clearance between any two silkscreen objects.
How Duplicate Rule Contentions are Resolved
All rules are resolved by the priority setting. The system goes through the rules from highest to lowest priority and picks the first one whose scope expressions match the object(s) being checked.
Rule Application
Online DRC and Batch DRC.