Hey guys im new to this program. I got a schematic done, transfered to ultiboard, autoplaced and autorouted. I have a few problems. One I want to use the laser printer method for fabercating the actual board. When I autoroute its placing my copper layer on the top not the bottem. How do I fix that? And also I need to print a mirrored actual size copy of the copper layer. I couldnt find that. Sorry to ask here guys but i spent like 2 hours looking through the help file. Im an electronics student and this is my first board design. Kevin

Hi Kevin, That was the missing piece of information. Single-sided boards had issues, and were removed in the latest version to avoid problems such as this. Of course it is still possible to create them (it is just a double-sided where one is not used). For your second question, you can change the shape of the pad directly in Ultiboard.Ensure that the selection filter's Enable Selecting Pads and Enable Selecting SMD Pads are both enabled (I don't know if this particular part is THT or SMD, so this covers both cases)Select the pad, and click Edit > Properties (double click also works)You can change the shape in the dialog that shows on the Pad tab. If this is a THT part, you will need to change the shape on each layer of the board.One final suggestion (care of nestor) is to ensure that everything fits once your are done. You can do this by printing the board with the footprint to paper, and doing a visual check with the part.

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got everything working great, thanks alot guys! Eching here I come.

Kevin

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