Replying to myself: I did a bit more digging and found the magic 'Tab' key. Now everything works as I remembered. Thanks to DJ's tutorial!
Further question though: what's the difference between 'B' and 'shift-B', other than 'shift-B' does odd things to the position? Eric Eric Brombaugh wrote: > It's been about 6 months since I did a 2-sided board with smd parts on > the back side and I seem to have forgotten the magic incantations. > > Stuff I know: > > * 'shift-B' flips an element to the opposite side from which it is > currently on. > > * 'B' seems to toggle the back side silk to visible on the previous > board I did. Oddly, the front-side silk is also still visible. > > > What I tried: > > I flipped a few caps from the component to the solder side. This seems > to change their position too, and their refdes becomes faint. 'B' > doesn't seem to have any effect on this board though. > > I moved them to the location where I want them, opposite a large LQFP. > Now when I try to rotate them the LQFP on the other side rotates instead. > > My questions: > > * Why doesn't the 'B' work on my new project? > * How to prevent edits to elements on the solder side of the board from > operating on component-side elements? > > Thanks, > > Eric > _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
