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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I would have to see it in action first.  To be honest, I don't think I
would like layers automatically turning on and off will I'm working.  As
long as there is a way to disable this completely, I would consider it
if enough users found it useful.

On 10/4/2015 3:37 AM, Lachlan Audas wrote:
> When your switching layers, while editing or adding tracks etc,  it
> would be be nice if you could automatically control which layers are
> displayed.  IE: When your on skill screen layer you only interested in
> skill screen,  via's, pad's,  top copper, and foot print.
>      the enhancement would look up a table of user define's layers, and
> only those layers enable would be displayed when change.
> This could be under mouse control... etc, by user defined input trigger
> events.  This display mask could control how the other layers
> are render, order of render, transparency etc..
>    (/Which get's in to a second Idea,  import event manage. Which I will
> talk about in a another post when I'm ready/).
> 
>  This allow  the user to easy reduce the clutter to what ever they like
> or needs for that layer in ?.
> 
> Any taker's ?
> 
> 
> Lachlan.
> 
> 
> 
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