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Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 08:26:08 +0000
From: Iain Paton <selsinork AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] pcb layers & shortcuts
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On 25/03/13 16:08, DJ Delorie wrote:

> Look in the source/build tree and find gpcb-menu.res and copy that to ~/.pcb
> 
> Edit that file to not have "m=S" in the "Save" line.

Thanks, works great!

> The default is a 6-layer board (plus outline and "spare" layers), with
> the layers set up so that you can simply ignore the inner layers.
> There may be a way to change all that, but you shouldn't *need* to
> change it to make a 2 or 4 layer board.

Ok, then I'm doing something wrong somewhere..

If I simply run 'pcb' at the command line I'm getting:
1. component
2. solder
3. gnd
4. power
5. signal1
6. signal2
7. signal3
8. signal4
   silk
   rat lines

some of my recent layouts have the outline, none have 'spare'. I'm sure I've seen spare somewhere, but can't find one with that anywhere now that I'm looking.

Typically these days I'd just start pcb and then do a File/Import Schematics, nothing fancy, and that's much more user friendly than the old gsch2pcb loop, so thanks for that. Although it's my recollection that when using gsch2pcb there was a project file or something that defined what layers ended up in the layout.

Confusingly, on my laptop I'm getting the spare and outlines layers like you mention, only difference I can see is they were compiled a few days apart and the laptop is 64bit instead of 32.

Am I possibly fighting with some leftovers of a previous version ?  but if so, where would it be finding the different set of defaults ?  Since .pcb/preferences gets overwritten even if I change it, there's something I'm missing.

Need to change it ?  Maybe not, but it all comes back to that muscle memory problem, I simply don't seem to be able to un-learn that specific numbers on the keyboard refer to certain layers.  Yep, the problem really is me being stuck in my ways!