Is there an easy way to show/hide top/bottom layers in Eagle

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I can’t believe each time you want to show/hide top/bottom layer information you have to manually go through and click each layer. Is there a way to easily hide say top layer or bottom layer. Can I write a script? If so please some info on how to. They need a simple layer state manager or something.

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barkster,

Once you’re displaying the layers you want, right click the display button and select “New…” You can give it a name like “top_copper”, which can be recalled later with another right click.

Jon

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Oh my god, I’ve been using Eagle almost daily for a year and a half and I never knew about that. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Rolf:
Oh my god, I’ve been using Eagle almost daily for a year and a half and I never knew about that. :stuck_out_tongue:

Don’t feel so bad. Around four years for me and I just tried that feature last week. Not even sure when it was added. You can also set up different grids the same way.

Jon

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thanks they needed that, ridiculous otherwise. the documentation is lacking or lets say the ease of finding it is lacking. they should have just put a button right along side the other 5 buttons in the display panel that says save. Thanks for the tip!

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Wow, this tip is ridiculously useful – thanks!

Now the main thing on my Eagle wish-list is to be able to view a board reflected. Otherwise when I’m trying to lay out bottom of a board, everything is backwards.

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In addition to setting up view profiles in Layers and Grids, right clicking on some buttons (Parts, Packages, ULPs, SCRs) will give you a history list of recently used items. Especially on the Parts button, it saves a lot of time going back through the library search window if you are placing lots of the same parts.

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EAGLE also has rather extensive customization capabilities via ULPs, Scripts, and the “Menu” command.

I’ve had this in my board init file for years; I never noticed (or needed to notice) that there were ways to defined customer layer sets…

menu    'Layers {\
            Top : display NONE top torigins tKeepout tRestrict borigins pads vias dimension unrouted; | \
            Bottom : display NONE bottom borigins bKeepout bRestrict torigins pads vias dimension unrouted; | \
            All : display top bottom pads vias dimension unrouted tplace \
                torigins tnames tvalues bnames bvalues tkeepout bplace borigins bkeepout; | \
            NoNames : display -tnames -tvalues -bnames -bvalues; | \
            noDocu : display -tdocu -bdocu; | \
            AddDocu:  display tdocu bdocu; | \
            SilkScreen: display NONE tplace -tnames -tvalues -tdocu dimension top; \
        }' \
        'TogScreen : run toglays 21 22 25 26 27 28 51 52;' \
        'DrawOn {\
            Top : change layer top; | \
            Bottom : change layer bottom; | \
            tPlace : change layer tPlace; | \
            Dim : change layer Dimension; | \
            History: change layer History; \
        }' \
        'Grid {\
          Toggle : run gridhalf 1 t ; info | \
          Smaller : run gridhalf 0.5; move | \
          Bigger : run gridhalf 2; move   | \
          OnOff : grid; move \
        }' \
        'Circle : run circle;' \
        'Count : run count;' \
        'DrlAid : run drill-aid;' \
        'RipPoly : ripup @;' \
    ;