Homebrew PCBs

Mike Young wrote:

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Alan King" <alan@...>
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>> Try turning on the tplace layer, placing your SMT device, then use
>>that little mirror tool on it, right below the move and beside rotate.
>>It's in the tutorial PDF somewhere, the 4.1 or so new version is when I
>>got it as I recall..
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>I don't think that works for SMT parts, Alan. It works fine for 
>through-hole, but I've never been successful in flipping surface mount 
>parts. Maybe a limitation of the freebie?
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  I used Eagle for quite some time knowing it worked on through hole and 
not realizing it was how to do SMT parts myself until I finally did the 
tutorial with 4.1.  Try again, it works fine.  Pads and pins are on the 
same edit window in the library editor, there simply are no SMT or 
through hole parts in Eagle, it understands no difference.  There is 
only whether there is a pin touching both layers or an smd at any 
particular point, which has no bearing on flip working or not..  Parts 
is parts in Eagle, it is the chicken nugget mecca of the CAD world..

Alan