> Paired top and bottom silkscreens would be another idea worth considering..... > specially when Protel does such a lousy job of handling designator and part > numbering. If you use the current system like designator = part number = OA5, > and use the designator mirrored and set to bottom silkscreen and part number set > to top. Once you start to use pasted arrays and step/repeated sections, you get > rubbish like connector names going from OA5 -> OA5_1c. Looks like c**p on a > board. > > Clive Broome
If you want to paste components while retaining the *original* designators, invoke the 'Edit/Paste Special...' command, and in the resulting 'Paste Special' dialog box, check the 'Duplicate designator' checkbox. (You will probably have to uncheck the 'Remove Duplicates' checkbox, within the 'Options' Tab of the 'Preferences' dialog box, before doing that though.) (Having duplicated components like that is best done only in panellised PCBs, and only after you are fully confident that the initial PCB fully "passes muster". And when I panellise PCBs, I always retain separate files for the original PCB and for the panellised form of that.) If either additional paired layers or optional pairing of the existing Mechanical layers were to be provided though, I could still imagine some users wanting to use such layers as supplementary Silkscreen layers in some circumstances (say for Acrobat file/paper documentation of components over and above what was silkscreened onto the real PCBs themselves). And others have already commented on the merits of having a pair of Assembly layers... Regards, Geoff Harland. ----------------------------- E-Mail Disclaimer The Information in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this e-mail by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Any opinions or advice contained in this e-mail are confidential and not for public display. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
