Re doing it w/ Gerbers... I haven't watched this whole (hole ;) ) thread, so I hope I am not being redundant. Anyway, You can quickly mirror the bottom layer in CAMTASTIC. I have never bothered to print from CAMTASTIC, but it looks to be capable. I will be printing the mirrored layer Monday or Tuesday, and will follow up w/ its sucess. Creating the mirror took about 3 strokes.
Mike -----Original Message----- From: Ian Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 6:03 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] PCB view from bottom of board?? On 07:01 PM 22/02/2002 +1100, Geoff Harland said: >Bottom line: if Altium have visions of providing an "inverting" feature in >Phoenix, then this should be provided in a form which inverts the *entire* >PCB; there should not be an additional option (or alternative >implementation) of inverting *just* selected items. > >It is debatable as to what *should* happen when the L key is pressed, but >attempting to implement an "inversion" of objects which are currently in a >selected state (and *just* those objects) does have the potential to produce >nasty results. Does anyone else have any thoughts on this matter? > >Regards, >Geoff Harland. I usually don't want to invert the board as an end to itself - I just want to sometimes be able to work from the bottom - so just a viewpoint thing not a database thing would serve most of my purposes. An invert maybe useful when laying up SM components both side on a panel and using the "alternate rows flipped" technique of minimising pick and place machine setup. But doing this with Gerbers instead of the PCB is possible of course. Also, Abd ul-Rahman's comments about design re-use are valid. Hmmm - maybe it is time to re-visit the invert server... I think if we made the compromise that it only dealt with visible entities (so did not try to play games with layer pairs, design rules etc), only affected Top and Bottom Layer entities and associated layers, did not support undo (this was a big cause of problems) then we could release something that makes a good fist of typical inversion requirements - the existing beta server would be cut back to achieve this. Any interest in a cut down server that did not try to fully invert the whole database but just the top and bottom layers? And I personally would not be doing anything on this until I saw what Phoenix had - since we have requested bottom-viewing, inversion and mech layer associativity (all these being somewhat related) it would not surprise me to see that there was not something there in the next version - they are, after all, nice marketable features. Ian Wilson * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/proteledaforum@techservinc.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
