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Double-sided PCB tool - arbitrary reflection axis

joe_s
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 22:55:05 GMT

Hi Not sure where to post this; it's sort of a request but one I've filled myself so... I liked the Double-Sided PCB Tool idea but didn't fancy drilling multiple accurate holes, so thought it might be nice to just choose two holes already in the PCB and reflect the second layer about the line between those holes. If the holes are more-or-less in opposite corners, the reflected layer is in more-or-less the same routing area as the first layer. I tend to place a pair of fiducial marks on my PCBs near the corners which is what I used to use for artwork alignment. This requires very few changes to the code - just another radio-button for the mirror axis choice and a few lines in the mirror_geom() function... Maybe this is something no one but me would use, maybe it's silly... how do you vet these things? Joe