Hi all, I must be losing it because I know I did it on my old computer with a previous version of KiCad… when I select a block of components in PCBnew and right click I only have “Place, Copy, Flip, Rotate, Delete Block” as options… I am sure there was a Mirror option before, I even recall the icon. I tried using the keyboard shortcuts too (Shift+Left Click Select, and also Select + “Y”), but nothing. Any suggestions??
I doubt there was ever a “mirror” option in pcbnew, but if there was it was removed for good reason. You cannot mirror on a PCB without changing the footprints and rendering your circuit unmanufacturable. Schematic editor has mirror, though.
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Another possibility would be that “Flip” has been called “Mirror” in the old versions of kicad. (In eagle it is called mirror.)
Flip is a better name.
Thanks everyone, I guess I was just imagining it at some point… @c4757p makes sense about not being able to mirror in the pcbnew interface; however I think it would be a nice feature if DRC is turned off that it become available for cases where you are just freehanding the board traces & fills w/o a schematic… though I suppose those are also rare occurrences!