PCB Circuit Card Reverse Engineering

The Edit menu provides the usual cut, copy, paste which work on selections. To learn how to create complex selections, The Edit menu also provides access to Undo and Redo of the last operation before Pcb circuit card Reverse Engineering.

These can also be accomplished with the U key and Shift-R key. Finally, the Edit menu allows you to change the names of: the layout, the active layer, or text objects on the layout from Pcb circuit card Reverse Engineering.

The Screen menu supports most functions related to the whole Layout area. There are various entries to change the grid to some popular values when Pcb circuit card Reverse Engineering, the zoom factor, and which kind of element name is displayed. You can also re-align the grid origin and turn on and off the display of the grid. Before changing the grid alignment, I recommend that you zoom in as close as possible so that you’re sure the grid points appear exactly where you want them after Pcb circuit card Reverse Engineering.

The Screen of Pcb circuit card Reverse Engineering menu also allows you to turn on and off the visibility of the solder-mask layer. When the solder-mask layer is made visible it obscures most of the layout, so only turn this on when you really want to know what the solder-mask will look like from Pcb circuit card Reverse Engineering. The solder-mask that you see belongs to the side of the board you are viewing, which can be changed with the ‘view solder side’ option, also found in the Screen menu. When the solder-mask is displayed, the pin and pad clearance adjustments alter the size of mask cut-outs when Pcb circuit card Reverse Engineering.

The Sizes menu allows you to select a group of line thickness, via diameter, via drill size, and clearance (keepaway) (collectively called a “routing style”) to be copied to the “active” sizes. You can also change the names given to the routing styles and adjust their values from this menu. The “active” sizes are also adjustable from this menu before Pcb circuit card Reverse Engineering. The “active” sizes are shown in the status-line and control the initial size of new vias, drilling holes, lines, clearances, text-objects and also the maximum dimensions of the board layout.


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