Toggling all layers associated with the Top or Bottom metal Layers

Not mentioned so far is the use of display aliases

Set the layers as you want them for one view.

Then right click on the layer icon

Give your view an alias name

Repeat for the other view.

In use, right click and select your alias

This is explained in HELP > Find: ALIAS > DISPLAY> Parameter Aliases

HTH

Warren

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Not mentioned so far is the use of display aliases

Set the layers as you want them for one view.

Then right click on the layer icon

Give your view an alias name

Repeat for the other view.

In use, right click and select your alias

This is explained in HELP > Find: ALIAS > DISPLAY> Parameter Aliases

HTH

Warren

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Jim Hannas wrote:

When the Layers window is opened, you have  NEW, CHANGE, DEL, ALL and NONE.

 

I recall that earlier editions would toggle all of the Top or Bottom layers associated with the metal layers when the Top or Bottom metal layers were toggled.

 

It would be nice to add 2 buttons to the "Layers Display",  such as  "All-TOP"  and  "All-BOT",  which would toggle any layer that starts with 't' or 'b'.

It is very time consuming to do this by hand when working with parts on both sides of a PCB,  sometimes hundreds of times per day.:(

some years ago I wrote togLayer.ulp.

It is meant to be assiged to a hotkey and takes three groups of layer

numbers from the command line. For instance:

     run togLayer 1 21 !16 22 = 23 24

will toggle layer 1 and 21 dependinf on the current visibility of

layer 1.

In addition layer 16 and 22 are toggled reversely.

Layer 23 and 24 are forced to keep their current visibility.

The second and thired group (and there separators ! and =) are

optional.

int getVis (int l)

{

int v = 0;

 

project.board(B) B.layers(L)

   if (L.number == l) v = L.visible;

 

return v;

}

 

string cmd;

 

string appendLayer (int l, int v)

{

string s;

 

if (v == 1)

   sprintf(s, " %d", l);

else

   sprintf(s, " -%d", l);

 

return s;

}

 

void main (void)

{

int wasSchematic = schematic && project.board;

 

if (wasSchematic )

   cmd = "edit .brd;";

 

//  if (board)

{

   int l, v, n = 2;

   string s;

 

   // check first parameter

   if ((l = strtol(argv[1])) != 0)

   {

     // prepare cmd to invert first layer visibility

     cmd += "display";

     v = getVis(l);

     cmd += appendLayer(l, 1-v);

 

     // for the following parameters up to a ! or =

     //  append cmds to force the same visibility

     while ((n < argc) && ((l = strtol(argv[n])) != 0))

     {

       cmd += appendLayer(l, 1-v);

       n++;

     }

 

     // for the parameters following a ! up to a =

     //  append cmds to force the opposite visibility

     n++;

     while ((n < argc) && ((l = strtol(argv[n])) != 0))

     {

       cmd += appendLayer(l, v);

       n++;

     }

 

     // for the parameters following a =

     //  append cmds to force the visibility to not change

     n++;

     while ((n < argc) && ((l = strtol(argv[n])) != 0))

     {

       cmd += appendLayer(l, getVis(l));

       n++;

     }

 

     cmd += ";";

   }

}

 

if (wasSchematic )

   cmd += "edit .sch;";

 

if (cmd != "")

{

   //dlgMessageBox(cmd);

   exit (cmd);

}

}

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Lorenz

Jim Hannas wrote:

When the Layers window is opened, you have  NEW, CHANGE, DEL, ALL and NONE.

 

I recall that earlier editions would toggle all of the Top or Bottom layers associated with the metal layers when the Top or Bottom metal layers were toggled.

 

It would be nice to add 2 buttons to the "Layers Display",  such as  "All-TOP"  and  "All-BOT",  which would toggle any layer that starts with 't' or 'b'.

It is very time consuming to do this by hand when working with parts on both sides of a PCB,  sometimes hundreds of times per day.:(

some years ago I wrote togLayer.ulp.

It is meant to be assiged to a hotkey and takes three groups of layer

numbers from the command line. For instance:

     run togLayer 1 21 !16 22 = 23 24

will toggle layer 1 and 21 dependinf on the current visibility of

layer 1.

In addition layer 16 and 22 are toggled reversely.

Layer 23 and 24 are forced to keep their current visibility.

The second and thired group (and there separators ! and =) are

optional.

int getVis (int l)

{

int v = 0;

 

project.board(B) B.layers(L)

   if (L.number == l) v = L.visible;

 

return v;

}

 

string cmd;

 

string appendLayer (int l, int v)

{

string s;

 

if (v == 1)

   sprintf(s, " %d", l);

else

   sprintf(s, " -%d", l);

 

return s;

}

 

void main (void)

{

int wasSchematic = schematic && project.board;

 

if (wasSchematic )

   cmd = "edit .brd;";

 

//  if (board)

{

   int l, v, n = 2;

   string s;

 

   // check first parameter

   if ((l = strtol(argv[1])) != 0)

   {

     // prepare cmd to invert first layer visibility

     cmd += "display";

     v = getVis(l);

     cmd += appendLayer(l, 1-v);

 

     // for the following parameters up to a ! or =

     //  append cmds to force the same visibility

     while ((n < argc) && ((l = strtol(argv[n])) != 0))

     {

       cmd += appendLayer(l, 1-v);

       n++;

     }

 

     // for the parameters following a ! up to a =

     //  append cmds to force the opposite visibility

     n++;

     while ((n < argc) && ((l = strtol(argv[n])) != 0))

     {

       cmd += appendLayer(l, v);

       n++;

     }

 

     // for the parameters following a =

     //  append cmds to force the visibility to not change

     n++;

     while ((n < argc) && ((l = strtol(argv[n])) != 0))

     {

       cmd += appendLayer(l, getVis(l));

       n++;

     }

 

     cmd += ";";

   }

}

 

if (wasSchematic )

   cmd += "edit .sch;";

 

if (cmd != "")

{

   //dlgMessageBox(cmd);

   exit (cmd);

}

}

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Lorenz

Jim Hannas wrote on Sun, 05 June 2016 11:52

I recall that earlier editions would toggle all of the Top or Bottom

layers associated with the metal layers when the Top or Bottom metal

layers were toggled.

Huh? What?

Quote:

It would be nice to add 2 buttons to the "Layers Display",  such as 

"All-TOP"  and  "All-BOT",  which would toggle any layer that starts

with 't' or 'b'.  It is very time consuming to do this by hand when

working with parts on both sides of a PCB, sometimes hundreds of times

per day.:(

So what you're really asking for is a quick way to select a certain group

of layers to be displayed.  That is already available, and I do it

routinely.  Create scripts for the configurations you want.  Then you can

run the script simply by entering "scr " commands you use often to hot keys.

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Jim Hannas wrote on Sun, 05 June 2016 11:52

I recall that earlier editions would toggle all of the Top or Bottom

layers associated with the metal layers when the Top or Bottom metal

layers were toggled.

Huh? What?

Quote:

It would be nice to add 2 buttons to the "Layers Display",  such as 

"All-TOP"  and  "All-BOT",  which would toggle any layer that starts

with 't' or 'b'.  It is very time consuming to do this by hand when

working with parts on both sides of a PCB, sometimes hundreds of times

per day.:(

So what you're really asking for is a quick way to select a certain group

of layers to be displayed.  That is already available, and I do it

routinely.  Create scripts for the configurations you want.  Then you can

run the script simply by entering "scr " commands you use often to hot keys.

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