Christian, this is a new one for me: I have not seen this behaviour although I use this trick quite often (for heatsinks, knobs, logos, placeholders etc). Try to export the offending component to a spreadsheet, perhaps that will shed some light on the situation; I at a loss for both causes and solutions right now.
On my system components (both 'regular' and 'virtual') only mirror when I press the L key while placing them, or the X or Y key (but these generate a popup window for confirmation). If you wish, I can send you a small demo lib with four of my virtual components directly. Leo At 19/04/06 12:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hello, > >I have a question concerning creating a component, that's not really >mounted on the pcb, but anyhow this component should appear in the design. > >Sounds strange, but let me explain: I would like to have a component >called e.g. 'place_pcb_label_here' which is placed on the pcb to >show the people in the fab, where to stick the label. > >Sometimes they stick the label somewhere onto the pcb and in the >worst case, the label covers important testpoints. > >I thought about reserving a mechanical layer for this information >and create a component that consists of one rectangular in this >reserved layer only. > >But when I dropped this new component onto a pcb, protel 99se >mirrored this component and put it on the bottom layer. At the >moment, I have to move each label manually onto the top layer. > >Has anyone an idea, how to tell protel, that this 'not-existing' >component should be placed on top, or at least shouldn't be place on bottom...? > >regards >Christian Schulz > > >____________________________________________________________ >You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum > >To Post messages: >mailto:[email protected] > >Unsubscribe and Other Options: >http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com > >Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > >Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): >http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
