Re: [PROTEL EDA USERS]: Top Paste in single-layer display shows tracks

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In a message dated 9/18/00 3:49:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
dwighth@traxsoft.com writes:

> When I'm in single-layer display mode, and choose the Top Paste layer, the
>  SMT pads show in purple, but I also see all the Top Layer tracks in red.  
Is
>  this expected, or a bug?  Using P99SEsp5 with a simple 2-layer board, all
>  the SMTs on top.
>  
Yes, this is normal if you turn on either the paste mask or the soldermask. 
Recall that those layers are handled in inverse, so every place there's a 
cutout (such as a hole in the soldermask, directly over a pad) you'll see a 
matching pad in the mask layer.

Steve Hendrix