Homebrew PCBs

James, you may be right -- I don't know enough about the way these terms are "properly" used. In KiCad, though, a 1-layer board is a single-sided board; a 2-layer board is a double-sided board; and additional layers beyond that involve internal layers.

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "James" <jamesrsweet@...> wrote:
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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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> Isn't layer different from side? I always thought a double sided board was a single layer, and multilayer boards consist of multiple double sided boards sandwiched together.
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