I'm pondering a minor change in pcb's defaults to give us a more useful default stackup. How's this?
LAYERNAME (1, "top"), LAYERNAME (2, "ground"), LAYERNAME (3, "signal2"), LAYERNAME (4, "signal3"), LAYERNAME (5, "power"), LAYERNAME (6, "bottom"), LAYERNAME (7, "outline"), LAYERNAME (8, "spare"), This encompasses a few changes: 1. Default to six-layer stackup. You can ignore the signalN or power/ground layers for smaller boards. This covers nearly all PCB users (2/4/6 layers), and the rest can edit the stackup as usual. 2. Always include an "outline" layer. Handling an empty outline layer will need to be tweaked. 3. Rename outer layers to top/bottom, which seems to be what other packages (specifically, eagle and kicad) use. Component/solder isn't as obvious with SMT. We've used front/back elsewhere before, too, but that seems to be even less common. 4. Make the default layers in the right order to reflect a physical stackup. Note that this would be an interim change until we get around to either a new-board-wizard or new-means-load-template. So, geda/pcb users - would such a layout be a better default for you? Or worse? Or would something else make more sense? _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user