X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Message-ID: <1464729533.19695.17.camel@ksys.co.nz> Subject: Re: [geda-user] GND From: Buzz To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2016 09:18:53 +1200 In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.20.2-2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Tue, 2016-05-31 at 17:38 +0200, Patrick Dupre (pdupre AT gmx DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote: > Hello, Hi Patrick, > > I already deign my board. Now, I would like to define the ground, and > then > move the ground to the ground layer. I'm pretty new to this, but I'll give it a go. I,m sure I will be corrected if I set you wrong :) If you haven't altered your layers or groups in "File/Preferences", you should be able to do the following: 1. Select the layer called ground. By default this should be set for the top side of the board. 2. Select the "Rect" tool, small blue rectangle in the icon. 3. I scroll out until I can see the whole board, and click just off the board in one corner and then click just off the board in the corner diagonally opposite. 4. This should flood your board with what ever colour your ground layer is, other than the odd small islands your tracks may have created. You can fill these by zooming in and repeating the procedure around each island. I like to flood the back of my boards as well, so I do the following: 1. PCB creates new layers above the selected layer, so I select the layer directly below "ground". 2. Select "File/Preferences/Layers" and click the "Add" button. 3. Select the "Groups" tab and you will find just below the "ground" layer "New Layer". I name this "bground" because I have virtually no imagination. 4. At the bottom of the groups page there should be two layers which are greyed out. "bottom side" and "top side". 5. Click the button to the right of the new layer to make it the same group as "bottom side". This is normally group 02 on mine. 6. Click "Okay" and proceed as before. -- Cheers Buzz