Re: gEDA-user: Mirrored headers: how do I define the footprints ?

[Kim Lux <lux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Excellent !


On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 14:12 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > I was going to make the prototype boards single sided.  Does this still
> > work with a single sided layout or does pcb leave the tracks on the
> > "right" side even though the component is on the other side ?
> 
> If they're through-pins, yes.  PCB will flash a pad on both sides of
> the board (it does this for all pins), you can just ignore the "other"
> side.  Try it and see.  You might not get your silkscreen though.
> 
> Note that PCB always has all the layers; it just doesn't bother to
> print layers that don't have anything interesting on them.  If it does
> print two layers, just ignore one of them ;-)
> 
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Kim Lux,  Diesel Research Inc.