I’m new but learning all the time.
I want to place the battery holder on the back of the board(is this a wise idea?) to save space.
Now the problem I will have to adding traces, i can’t see what I’m doing on the front of the board due to the flipped FP, can I hide it?
You can see on the image that ive flipped the BH, but if I want to place a FP on the frontin the same coords as the flipped FP i cant see what Im doing.
Also how do you add traces to the back of the board?
You switch the current layer to place traces on B.Cu.
You can show / hide a layer by clicking on the eye icon in the Appearance Manager on the right side of the screen.
If you select the B.Cu layer, then starting a track will start by default on the back layer. However, even if F.Cu is active, when you start a track from an SMT pad that is on the backside of the PCB, the track will also start on the backside.
While routing, you can press v to place a via, and after placing the via routing will continue on the other side of the PCB.
These are very much beginners questions. Have you followed some beginner tutorials for KiCad?
I’ve watched quite a few tuts but nothing for working on back side of board.
Browsing Getting Started (what seems for me not possible to not read first) I see the example with LED and resistor placed at top and battery compartment placed at bottom:
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