Re: gEDA-user: How do I easily mirror a connector in pcb ?

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 08:00 -0600, armdeveloper wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 18:48 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > Are you sure you don't just need to put the header on the other side
> > of the board? 
> 
> I didn't realize you could do that.  The header needs the mirrored pin
> outs because the socket it mates to is on the wrong side of a daughter
> board.  However, I need the header on the component side of the board.
> If I place it on the wrong side of the board, will the solder lands be
> OK to solder it to the component side of the board ?

It will be (assuming its through hole, not surface mount ;))

For your application, I'd probably go the "make a mirrored component"
route, so the silk-screen is on the correct side of the board. This is
the way I've done it before when connecting daughter boards with
headers. (Although it was the connector on the bottom of the daughter
board which I changed the numbering of.. keeps the pin numbering as you
might expect for the connectors on the component side).

The hotkey you want to swap board sides (if you do it that way) is "b"
or shift-b for a selected component / selection of stuff, if I remember
correctly.

Peter




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