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Subject:	Re: [geda-help] PCB: bottom layer split
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Thanks so much!

That user interface isn't easy to figure out. Initially, it was hard to 
see what was happening because the the 'activated' buttons don't look much 
different from the inactive ones so trying to fix it, I wasn't even fully 
sure the buttons/UI were working.

   http://zorinco.com/tmp/pcbgroups.png

This is on Fedora 28 BTW. Clicking '02' next to 'bottom' (2nd row) and 
clicking '02' on 'bottom side' near the bottom appears to have fixed my 
issue. Searching around, I haven't found much documentation on how 
layers/groups work, or how best to set them initially (it's always just 
worked up till now, but putting something on the 'far side' appears to 
have triggered something. What I've found makes sense now that I 
understand what's going on.

Thanks loads for your help!
-C


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Christopher Nielsen    chris AT ZORINco DOT com    http://ZORINco.com


On Wed, 9 Jan 2019, DJ Delorie wrote:

>
> "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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