Adding silk screen to Eagle DRC

I’ve been bitten a few times by not checking if I’ve put a device label over a pad or a via, and the silk screen doesn’t get printed. Is there any way in Eagle to have the DRC check the silk screen layers to see if you have a label over a pad, via, or hole?

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brennen:
I’ve been bitten a few times by not checking if I’ve put a device label over a pad or a via, and the silk screen doesn’t get printed. Is there any way in Eagle to have the DRC check the silk screen layers to see if you have a label over a pad, via, or hole?

No. But not to worry most PCB houses photographically

subtract the pad and via layers so that silk-screen ink

doesn’t fill holes. Making the silk readable is the designer’s

job.

Comments Welcome!

I think I’m definitely moving to Eagle version 5. According to Eagle’s [“What’s new in version 5”, this feature now exists:

The DRC now reports an error if an object in the t/bPlace, t/bNames or t/bValues layer overlaps with an object in the t/bStop layer (provided these layers are active when the DRC is run).

bigglez:
Making the silk readable is the designer’s job.

Yes, but unfortunately this designer misses things occasionally. :x](CADSoft Finanzportal - CADSoft Finanzportal)