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Re: gEDA-user: default pcb stackup change?
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 02:45:18 +0200
Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> DJ Delorie wrote:
>
> >
> > I'm pondering a minor change in pcb's defaults to give us a more
> > useful default stackup. How's this?
> >
> > LAYERNAME (1, "top"),
> > LAYERNAME (2, "ground"),
> > LAYERNAME (3, "signal2"),
> > LAYERNAME (4, "signal3"),
> > LAYERNAME (5, "power"),
> > LAYERNAME (6, "bottom"),
> > LAYERNAME (7, "outline"),
> > LAYERNAME (8, "spare"),
> >
> > This encompasses a few changes:
> >
> > 1. Default to six-layer stackup. You can ignore the signalN or
> > power/ground layers for smaller boards. This covers nearly all PCB
> > users (2/4/6 layers), and the rest can edit the stackup as usual.
I like KMK's idea; I'd suggest his proposed switches establish the following:
> I like to have a comment layer just below the outline layer. In
> this layer I put internal notes.
[...]
> Make the default layer stack depend on options:
> --2layer
1, Top
2, Bottom
3, Outline
4, Notes
> --4layer
1, Top
2, Signal 2
3, Signal 3
4, Bottom
5, Outline
6, Notes
(This is similar to the stackup I usually use, except with different names).
> --6layer
As DJ suggested originally, with "Notes" on layer 8.
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