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FIGURE 5-23 Moving the LEDs closer together.

Run the DRC again. You may find an error relating to the ground plane, complaining of “width.”
You can ignore this.

Let’s now move on to the next stage in the preparation of our board—sorting out the silk-screen
layer.

Text on the Silk Screen

To make our board look really good, as well as making it easy to assemble and see which component
goes where, we need to sort out the writing that will appear on the board, known as the silk screen.
The “tPlace” is the layer responsible for the silk screen, so let’s turn off some of the layers to get a
clear view of what we are working on.

Open the Layers list by clicking the Layers command, and select just the layers “Pads,”
“Dimension,” “tPlace,” “tOrigins,” “tNames,” and “tValues.” Figure 5-24 shows the result of this.