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    Posted: 30 Oct 2025 at 7:27am
If I make the 'Clearance to Pad' 0.178 as image below what impacts? 

Also 'Outline to Body Margin' what this parameter do?
 
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You can't use both Clearance to Pad and Outline to Body Margin at the same time. 

It's one or the other. 

There is a 'Map Outline to Body' to dropdown menu selection with these Options:
  • None
  • Minimum 
  • Nominal 
  • Maximum 
  • +Margin (select this to turn on Outline to Body Margin)
When you select +Margin, then the Outline to Body Margin value is applied. 
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Can send images shows difference between margin and clearance features
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Here is a Silkscreen Outline mapping to the Maximum Body dimension:


 
Here is a Silkscreen Outline using the Map to Margin with a 0.15 setting:


 
Map Silkscreen to Margin allows you too set a distance value for the Nominal Package Body to the Silkscreen. You determine the offset margin. 
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so please cofrim
1- we should use clearance to pad than margin option, beacuse  clearance to pad set

·       Silkscreen to Pad

·       Silkscreen to Silkscreen

·       Polarity Dot to Pad

2-when use vlaue =0.178, should i change any option also?
3- as images shows oultine width =0.127, and clearance 0.178 , should i change any thing or it ok?
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Silkscreen to Pad, Silkscreen to Silkscreen and Silkscreen Polarity Dot to Pad are all set by the 'Clearance to Pads' option. 

The 'Map Outline to Body Margin' option is Silkscreen Outline to Nominal Package Body. 
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