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Why am not able to get a grasp of PCB designing?
tautech:
Does Kicad have a single layer view/working mode ?
Put all the big components on the back side plus any LED's and the IC and most passives on the other side.
That alone should make this quite doable.
grbk:
--- Quote from: tautech on November 13, 2019, 06:08:36 pm ---Does Kicad have a single layer view/working mode ?
Put all the big components on the back side plus any LED's and the IC and most passives on the other side.
That alone should make this quite doable.
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Yes, that's a good point. In Kicad you can turn off unnecessary layers by unchecking them in the layer pane on the right. This gives you complete control over which layers are displayed. There's also a "high contrast" display mode that I like a lot; when you turn it on the active layer is displayed as normal, but other layers are displayed in a unobtrusive gray color that helps them fade into the background. Like tautech says this can be very helpful for focusing on what's currently important, and I recommend you try it.
tautech:
--- Quote from: grbk on November 13, 2019, 07:29:51 pm ---
--- Quote from: tautech on November 13, 2019, 06:08:36 pm ---Does Kicad have a single layer view/working mode ?
Put all the big components on the back side plus any LED's and the IC and most passives on the other side.
That alone should make this quite doable.
--- End quote ---
Yes, that's a good point. In Kicad you can turn off unnecessary layers by unchecking them in the layer pane on the right. This gives you complete control over which layers are displayed. There's also a "high contrast" display mode that I like a lot; when you turn it on the active layer is displayed as normal, but other layers are displayed in a unobtrusive gray color that helps them fade into the background. Like tautech says this can be very helpful for focusing on what's currently important, and I recommend you try it.
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Yep. :)
Still redgear has to get his head around working with multiple layers and assigning any components properties to the correct layer which when done lets you better see on which layer they actually are.
Not the easiest project for first up but a little guidance will get him there.
james_s:
I really try to keep all components on one side of the board unless I really need some on the back, the only time I ever have is decoupling capacitors on some relatively dense boards. It's just a pain to assemble boards that have parts on both sides, especially when doing reflow soldering.
redgear:
--- Quote from: grbk on November 13, 2019, 07:29:51 pm ---
--- Quote from: tautech on November 13, 2019, 06:08:36 pm ---Does Kicad have a single layer view/working mode ?
Put all the big components on the back side plus any LED's and the IC and most passives on the other side.
That alone should make this quite doable.
--- End quote ---
Yes, that's a good point. In Kicad you can turn off unnecessary layers by unchecking them in the layer pane on the right. This gives you complete control over which layers are displayed. There's also a "high contrast" display mode that I like a lot; when you turn it on the active layer is displayed as normal, but other layers are displayed in a unobtrusive gray color that helps them fade into the background. Like tautech says this can be very helpful for focusing on what's currently important, and I recommend you try it.
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This feature has made working with the board easier. Thanks.
--- Quote from: tautech on November 13, 2019, 07:38:13 pm ---Yep. :)
Still redgear has to get his head around working with multiple layers and assigning any components properties to the correct layer which when done lets you better see on which layer they actually are.
Not the easiest project for first up but a little guidance will get him there.
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I'm currently working on rearranging the components on different layer, will post a pic once I'm done.
Thank you everyone for the amazing support.
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