Many thanks, Vasile! I have spent couple of hours yesterday on figuring it
out, reading the docs, but obviously I did not notice (I thought mirror is
for left/right mirroring :-)

Thanks,
Tamas


On 18/09/06, Vasile Surducan <piclist9@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/18/06, Tamas Rudnai <tamas.rudnai@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > Is anybody uses Eagle for PCB designing? I would have some questions:
> >
> > I am designing an SMD PCB, and it is a two layer one (both sides of the
> > board). The question is how could I tell Eagle that the SMD pad is on
> the
> > bottom layer?
>
> mirror the component
>
> So far I could not sucseed with that, only the wire that I
> > could place into the othe layer using the change command.
> >
> > Other question is if I use normal components that requires solder pads,
> how
> > can I tell that the pad is a kind of via? I mean on both side there is a
> > solder pad and the drill is a plated one.
>
> this is the normal definition of a thru hole component in eagle
>
> >
> > The other question is how can I make a via within an SMD pad?
>
> put a via on it and modify the rules (*.dru file) at "smd to via" section
>
> >
> > Alternatively: if those things could not be done very easy, which PCB
> design
> > software you suggest for Windows -- if possible as cheap as it can be
> (do
> > not need six million layer support or few acre board size, just max a
> normal
> > two layered credit card size thing. But it has to be able to produce
> > standard Gerber and drill files.
> >
> > Thanks very much,
> > Tamas
> >
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