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How to change point of view on PCB layout?

e14 Contributor

Hi all,
I m new at this forum. Generally i can find what i m looking for it by googling it. But this time i couldnt.

 

On the PCB layout i m staring at the top side of my circuit. I can see the bottom side but it s all mirrored ( if i type anything on my pcb letters re mirrored. Look at my screenshot for that) . I just want to change my point of view and see from the bottom, so i can see the straight blue copper and mirrored red copper. It s easy to change that thing in Proreus.
I hope someone could help me with my basic problem.

 

Have a good day.

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    Hello again,

     

    Yes now i m using "display" command to on or off the layers, its cool but also i would like to assign a key or a button to do that for me. And also i found a rendering program called zofzPCB for windows now i am using this to 3D view. But it takes many effort and also i could not see my 3D components there. I ll find an application for directly rendering from .brd format for Windows. I also used show command but my problem is not with the tool i could not see the difference between highlighted and not highlighted nets. It is about the color contrast or something. I believe i have to get used to it.

     

    Thank you Rachael for your help. Have a good day.

  • 0 in reply to e14 Contributor

    I think I am close to this topic if I ask, Why can I not find some handy ULP files that will

    show_top_view_only.ulp and show_bot_view_only.ulp?

     

    I understand that *real* bottom view (mirrored) can't happen, but just switching the

    layers for top vs bottom is so tedious!

     

    Maybe I am missing something?

     

    Thanks!

  • 0 in reply to e14 Contributor

    Hi, you don't need to use ULP to do this just two script files with appropriate DISPLAY commands to turn on/off the layers you want to view. You could use ULP's if you wished, create a string containing the appropriate DISPLAY commands and pass it as a parameter to exit().

     

    Edit: Corrected LAYER to DISPLAY.

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