Hi,
I'm putting components on both sides of a dual layer board, the problem is that the components are all overlapped and I cant really see what is happening - so I wonder if there is a way to hide the components on the bottom layers whilst I work on the top layer placement and vice versa?
Regards, oldmanraskers
Hi,
The easy way is to have a shortcut to hide bplace(22), borigin(24) and bdocu(52) layers, to display them, and same for top (tplace(21), borigin(23) and bdocu(51) layers).
to do that, you go on 'option>assign' menu and you can assign key, to different display option:
F1 will display top layer, and tplace, torigin and tkeepout, while Crtl+F1 will hide them.
the shift version "Shift F1" and "shift ctrl F1" do the same but whit the tdocu.
F4 is for the bottom...
At first I was using different key and I alway mix up every thing... so I tried to organize my shortcut in a way that is easier to remember (for me, you should found your own organization ). I give you my organization as an simple example:
Ctrl + Fx : hide layers
no Ctrl + Fx : display
F1 to F4 : Main routing layer from top to bottom (F1 top, F4 bottom)
Shift+Fx : additional layers that I use less like F1= tdocu, F2=GND plane on 2nd routing layer, .....
If I work on 6 layer's PCB this will be :
F1 > Top route layer
Shift + F1 : Part tdocu layer.
Shift + F2 : Second route layer (usually a GND plane)
F2 : third route layer
F3 : 4th route layer
Shift + F4 : 5th route layer (usually a Power plane)
F4 :bottom route layer
Shift + F4 : Part bdocu layer.
Thank - that really helped me out 
