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From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: [geda-help] PCB: bottom layer split
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Date:	Wed, 09 Jan 2019 22:10:00 -0500
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"Christopher Nielsen writes:
> Does anyone know much about the 'groups' in PCB?

Yes :-)

> I have a 2 sided board. I placed a component on the 'far side' layer, 
> which I'm expecting should be appearing on the 'bottom' gerber output. But 
> no.

Check your Groupings (File->Preferences->Layers->Groups)

Whatever column is your "back side" needs to have the row for your
copper layer checked AND the row for "bottom side" checked.  That tells
PCB which copper layers are on the "far side".

> I looked at http://wiki.geda-project.org/#community looking to join the 
> IRC (I'm a bit new to IRC). And in Pidgin, I go to 'Add account', I cannot 
> because I don't already have a user/pass, so I'm not sure where to enter 
> the irc.oftc.net/6667 info. That web page doesn't mention anthing about a 
> user/pass.

OFTC suffered a huge spam problem a few months ago, and most of the
lists (if not the whole server) require authentication before posts are
allowed.  I could probably revert that now for #geda.

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