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Former Member over 14 years ago

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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    Former Member over 14 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Warren Brayshaw schrieb:

     

    My preference is to have the indication just outside of the design area.

    ...

    2) Change the background colour of the STATUS bar. The status bar is usually

    alway visible and in the attension grabbing position below you sight line.

    Words should alo be added to indicate that the BOTTOM view is actrive.  A

    simple XY graphic could also be added. indicating X increases to the left.

    The colour, words and icon should not be lost when  ULPs use the status

    command.

     

    I favour this last option.

     

    I second that.

     

    Currently, the status bar is almost always completely empty, or used to

    display only rather short information. It could be segmented (as known

    from many other programs), with the rightmost part showing the current

    view status - maybe bold and/or colored when not "normal".

     

    While thinking about it, this (another segment in the status bar) would

    also be a fine place for the annotation status: "Annotation active" in

    regular font resp. "NO ANNOTATION" in red, bold letters...

     

    Tilmann

     

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    Former Member over 14 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Andrew Sterian wrote on Tue, 01 March 2011 20:40

    Second, here is my suggestion for what to do when you display the

    mirror image of the board:

     

    Nothing.

     

    I know my board designs. I know when I am looking at the front and when

    I am looking the back. A good tool stays out of the designer's way.

     

    Hear, hear!

     

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    Former Member over 14 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Tilmann Reh wrote:

    Warren Brayshaw schrieb:

     

    >> My preference is to have the indication just outside of the design

    >> area. ...

    >> 2) Change the background colour of the STATUS bar. The status bar is

    >> usually always visible and in the attention grabbing position below

    >> you sight line. Words should also be added to indicate that the

    >> BOTTOM view is active.  A simple XY graphic could also be added.

    >> indicating X increases to the left. The colour, words and icon

    >> should not be lost when  ULPs use the status command.

    >>

    >> I favour this last option.

    Tilmann Reh wrote:

    I second that.

     

    Currently, the status bar is almost always completely empty, or used

    to display only rather short information. It could be segmented (as

    known from many other programs), with the rightmost part showing the

    current view status - maybe bold and/or colored when not "normal".

     

    While thinking about it, this (another segment in the status bar)

    would also be a fine place for the annotation status: "Annotation

    active" in regular font resp. "NO ANNOTATION" in red, bold letters...

     

    Tilmann

     

    Attached is a mock up of this idea. It's very close to 'do nothing' and

    satisfies those who would like something.

     

    No discussion has been had on the direction of the flip.

    It has been implied that the flip is horizontal, like MIRROR, but a vertical

    flip is just as valid.

    If I'm handling a PCB the flip I perform depends on the aspect ratio so the

    option to flip vertically also may be desirable. - thoughts?

     

    Warren

     

     

     

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  • Former Member
    Former Member over 14 years ago in reply to Former Member

    warrenbrayshaw wrote on Thu, 03 March 2011 15:16

    No discussion has been had on the direction of the flip.

    It has been implied that the flip is horizontal, like MIRROR, but a

    vertical flip is just as valid.  If I'm handling a PCB the flip I perform

    depends on the aspect ratio so the option to flip vertically also may be

    desirable. - thoughts?

     

    I suppose the full featured case would be to either mirror or not and

    rotate any 90 degree increments.

     

    However, if all that fanciness holds things up and makes it more difficult

    to use, I'd rather just get a simple toggle mirror view command.

     

    --

    Web access to CadSoft support forums at www.eaglecentral.ca.  Where the CadSoft EAGLE community meets.

     

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  • Former Member
    Former Member over 14 years ago in reply to kcadsoft

    On 3/1/2011 12:20 AM, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

    On 02/28/11 22:29, Gary Gofstein wrote:

    >> ...

    >> the only thing I would add is that it should be very clear that you are

    >> in flipped view, not requiring checking coordinates direction, pushing

    >> buttons, issuing commands. this should go without saying, but just to be

    >> sure, I'm saying it!

     

    Do you have any particular idea on how this could be made "very clear"?

    I guess any small icon indicating this will be overlooked, and a thick

    "yellow/black" border around the draw window indicating "Caution - you're

    in flip mode!" will be overkill...

     

    Klaus Schmidinger

    All I mean is that it should be readable at any time without executing a

    command. A word (like top/bottom) or indicator in the status bar, or

    near the grid/coordinate display is fine. Just so that I don't have to

    do something to see it. It's not a warning I'm looking for, it's just an

    indicator, I hope I can overlook it if I'm not looking at it.

     

    Many mech cad software has such a view state indicator. Text in the

    status bar is the only way I've seen it implemented.

     

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    Former Member over 14 years ago in reply to Former Member

     

    "Warren Brayshaw" <warrenbrayshaw@paradise.net.nz> wrote in message

    news:ikbml3$kuu$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de...

    >> "Jeff Gough"wrote in message

    The ULP mirror-board.ulp is useful for this.

    If you create a Text Command menu button that runs this ULP you can flip

    the

    board with a single click.

     

    and what's happening with locked components?

     

     

     

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    Former Member over 10 years ago

    +1 For quick board flip in view.  Board flip should also draw layers so that bottom obscures top layers, this would make routing traces and placing text on bottom just as easy as on top.

     

    ULP is not a good solution.  I just script ran it twice and diff'ed the before and after, and there some missing vertex's in the board that was flipped twice.  

    As mentioned before, this doesn't work when there are locked components (although the script could probably updated to fix this).

     

    The script I used:

    https://github.com/sparkfun/SparkFun_Eagle_Settings/blob/master/ulp/mirror-board.ulp

     

    The before and after diff showing some missing vertex lines:

    @@ -3502,14 +3502,12 @@

    </polygon>

    <polygon width="0.254" layer="16" thermals="no">

    <vertex x="71.247" y="27.559"/>

    -<vertex x="82.677" y="27.559"/>

    <vertex x="82.931" y="27.559"/>

    <vertex x="82.931" y="15.367"/>

    <vertex x="71.247" y="15.367"/>

    </polygon>

    <polygon width="0.254" layer="16" thermals="no">

    <vertex x="71.12" y="51.435"/>

    -<vertex x="82.55" y="51.435"/>

    <vertex x="82.804" y="51.435"/>

    <vertex x="82.804" y="39.243"/>

    <vertex x="71.12" y="39.243"/>

    @@ -3945,7 +3943,6 @@

    <wire x1="30.039" y1="18.626" x2="30.039" y2="18.126" width="0.3048" layer="16"/>

    <polygon width="0.254" layer="16" thermals="no">

    <vertex x="29.972" y="34.163"/>

    -<vertex x="29.972" y="32.893"/>

    <vertex x="29.972" y="32.766"/>

    <vertex x="31.369" y="32.766"/>

    <vertex x="31.369" y="34.163"/>

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  • kikoun
    kikoun over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

    hello,

     

    That would be a great feature for 2 particular task:

    - adjust text on bottom (silk layer)

    - debugging a board. (I know, I know, I can print, but on a printed paper highlight and search feature is very very limited...)

     

    Just one thing: a good visible indication must warn us if this mirrored mode is activated.

     

    Guillaume.

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