On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 01:15 +0200, kai-martin knaak wrote: > There seems to be some indifference in pcb on how to call the layers. > Mostly, it is "top/bottom", sometimes it is "component/solder" and the > gerber file names use "front/back". From teaching geda to complete newbies I > know, that this indifference adds to the confusion. Is there a reason not to > stick to a single notation, other than "it grew like this over the years"? > > If I were to choose, I'd vote for "top/bottom", because kicad, protel/altium > and eagle also use this scheme. The fabs are used to it which reduces the > probability for errors. It would help new users who come one of these > packages, too. > I've adopted the convention of "top/2/3/.../n-1/bottom" for all my work, so many of my boards have components on both sides and with SMT, solder and component are the same side.
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