Homebrew PCBs

I'm running on Ubuntu 10.4; the version of Kicad that I'm running is what was loaded from Synaptic Package Manager. I'll try downloading the latest version of Kicad and see what it does.

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "acidblue" <sunblaster5@...> wrote:
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> Wow, that is interesting.
> I don't have that 'Layer' option in my version.
> That space is blank, I just have the 'Max Links' and 'Auto Save'.
> I'm using this on Ubuntu 9.10.
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> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew" <a_wake@> wrote:
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> > Hmmm ... I'm running version 20090216. Surely they haven't taken this feature out in the newer version that you are running?? Just to be sure, here is a screenshot of the dialog that comes up when I click on Preferences/General in PCBnew:
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> > http://home.earthlink.net/~a_wake/screenshot.png
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> > Notice the section "Layers" with a set of radio buttons to choose 1, 2, 4, or more.
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> > --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "acidblue" <sunblaster5@> wrote:
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> > > There isn't a 'Layer" section in the general settings.
> > > using Build 20100314 SVN-R2462-final
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> > > --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew" <a_wake@> wrote:
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> > > > There are two answers to this question.
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> > > > 1) Manually route, and just do so one the desired side of the board. I usually manually route most if not all of the traces on my boards; I'm rarely if ever satisfied with what the auto-routers come up with.
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> > > > 2) Tell KiCad that your board is single layer only -- in PCBnew, click on Preferences, then on General. Click on the desired number of layers (1 in this case). Click okay, and you are good to go.
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> > > > --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "acidblue" <sunblaster5@> wrote:
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> > > > > How do I get Kicad to make traces just on one side of the PCB?
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