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[Oliver Walters <oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think that is the desired behaviour, though? Once in the board, the can
edit the layers individually anyway.

On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 9:57 PM, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Le 05/11/2017 à 11:48, Oliver Walters a écrit :
> > How best to store the layer information then? The way I was doing it
> previously was:
> >
> > -  F.Cu
> > - *.Inner.Cu
> > - B.Cu
> >
> > Is this sufficient?
>
> Yes, this is sufficient, when a keepout is inside a footprint.
>
> The issue was the fact *.Inner.Cu information was lost with a 2 layers
> board, when saving this
> board, or exporting to the fp editor.
>
>
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 9:41 PM, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     Le 05/11/2017 à 11:12, Oliver Walters a écrit :
> >     > JP,
> >     >
> >     > Did you have any other things you want me to address here?
> >     >
> >     > Cheers,
> >     > Oliver
> >     >
> >
> >     Yes: I did not make a lot of tests, but I found some issues (tested
> on W7 32 bits):
> >
> >     First, Pcbnew crashed after editing (after adding a keepout) a
> footprint on a board in this case:
> >     - select and edit a footprint (Ctrl+E) in fp editor: just add a
> keepout, and save it on the board.
> >     - then reselect and edit this footprint a second time in fp editor:
> Pcbnew crashes.
> >
> >     Other issues in fp editor:
> >     - modifying a keepout cannot be undone.
> >     - The keepout layers are no selectable: I am thinking the options:
> Top layer, bottom layer and
> >     internal layers (existing in the first version) is really better.
> >     Just this is the way these layers are managed in board editor and
> stored in file that was not good
> >     (especially when a board has only 2 layers: the internal layers
> setting was lost).
> >
> >     As a side effect: the look of the keepout layer dialog is not very
> good after resized:
> >     - Create a keepout on a board: the dialog shows the layers list.
> >     - After that, create a keepout in the fpeditor: the layers list is
> not shown, but its area exists,
> >     and the look of the dialog is not good.
> >
> >
> >     --
> >     Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
>