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Flipping a Component, but keep it on Top Layer

bazz

I flipped a component on my board because it seems the only way to get to the desired orientation. Now, the place silkscreen is on the bottom of the board. I want the place details to stay on the top of the board.

  • It's for 2x20 Pin headers I am using from pinhead library

  • Michael Bazzinotti wrote:

    I flipped a component on my board because it seems the only way to get

    to the desired orientation. Now, the place silkscreen is on the bottom

    of the board. I want the place details to stay on the top of the

    board.

     

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    Please take the time to accurately explain your actions and needs.

    For example:

    Which library part exactly

    Why did "Rotate" not give you what you wanted.

    Which side of the board did you want the part i.e. Did you want to "Mirror"

    the part to the bottom of the board?

     

    Without more detail we cannot assist with a quick answer and end up typing

    more that you did image

     

    FYI

    Parts are always built in a library as if viewed from above. If you intend

    to have a part mounted on the bottom but silk screen on the top then the

    part would need to have the silk screen mirrored to the bottom when you make

    the package so that it ends up on the top when the part is mirrored on the

    board.

     

     

    Warren

     

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  • display only the tplace and bplace layers.

    select the part that is not where you want it to be.

    open its properties page and change the layer, click apply

    and outline should change color.

    if you dont display both layers part will disappear when you

    change its layer.

  • On 12/07/13 21:05, Michael Bazzinotti wrote:

    I flipped a component on my board because it seems the only way to get

    to the desired orientation. Now, the place silkscreen is on the bottom

    of the board. I want the place details to stay on the top of the board.

     

    Eagle won't do that, because it shouldn't. The pins down the left side

    of a component are down the left side of the component and no amount of

    wishing will change that. If you flip the component you are going to

    have to fit it on the bottom, otherwise the legs are waving in the air.

     

    What you're actually saying, behind the details, is that you've wired up

    the component wrongly. In this case, as you say it's a 2x20 pin header,

    you may have the option to move the signals you have on odd pins to the

    even pins and vice-versa. That would be the right way to do what you want.

     

    Alternatively, although this is a kludge, you could define a mirror

    version of the package and add it as an option on the library component.

    I do slightly sympathize with this option because the socket housings

    often have a pin 1 marker on what the IDC ones call pin 2, so you can

    blame that for the confusion!

     

     

    Rob