When routing the back of a board, it would be really nice to be able to
flip the view to see the back of the board as it really is.
It would be extremely useful when debugging a board, as it's really painful
to find a signal in eagle, then mentally flip it to find it on the physical
board.
It would also be useful for checking text layout on the back of the board.
Mentally flipping text is a bit of a pain, and almost impossible when
you're trying to evaluate its aesthetic appeal. Yes, I do consider
aesthetics important in PCB design!
I know I can print out the board mirrored, or group-then-mirror, and
various other hacks, but if this button existed, I'd click it every minute
or so when routing a complex design.
In fact, I'd prefer the board view to immediately mirror when I changed
routing layer to add a via! Other people probably wouldn't, so this would
have to be an option that defaulted to "off".
I've been using eagle for ten years, always wanting this feature, but only
just realised there was a suggestions forum!
gEDA, Orcad, Altium Designer, and probably others support this so I can't
be alone in desiring this feature! (see
http://wiki.altium.com/display/ADOH/AltiumDesignerViewer-ViewingPCBDocuments#AltiumDesignerViewer-ViewingPCBDocuments-FlippingtheBoard
for example)
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