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Re: New Layers was: [Have you tried design spark?]Z

 

On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, Karl Schmidt wrote:

There was a distinction between copper layers and tech layers - I'm assuming these are all 'tech layers'? or is this still a valid distinction?

You can't route on tech layers and IIRC they were filtered out by the
DRC.

(also note my comments there about copper = solder-side and component = front side (Many boards have parts on both front and back.) can we use better nomenclature?

They are now called front and back by default (why not top and bottom
which seem to be industry standard?); anyway you can rename them

Also, what happens with board old files? Do they get converted? Compatible etc?

Guessing from his description they should be simply 'extended' on
saving.

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