Layer Setup Where to find

[Fabi]

Hello,
i wanted to open the “Layer Setup” box in Version 5.1.2 for changeing from 2 to 4 Layer. As mentioned in
other tuturials/topics, there shuld be the Layer setup where the red arrow in the picture
can be found

In my version there is no Layer Setup. Where can I find it?
Thanks for helping.

[eelik]

There’s only a blue arrow in the picture, and the layer setup is approximately there (inside the Board Setup dialog). Or File -> Board Setup.

[Fabi]

Thanks for the fast answer. Sorry, yes its blue. I wanted to show where normal the setup Menu is.
I also looked in Board Settings. But I can’t find where to set 4 Layers.

[eelik]

Oh, that usability problem again… Click on “Layers” on the left side header tree. It’s a page, not just a top level header.

[Fabi]

Thanks. Problem Solved! I searched for hours to find it. It’s souch a silly question, but my colleagues also couldn’t find it. Im wondering that nobody before asked this question.

[eelik]

The developers have discussed about those dialog trees. Some applications use this “top level branch is also a dialog page” idea, some don’t. @JeffYoung may be interested in hearing about your experience.

[JeffYoung]

I’m not a huge fan of it either, but it’s the default way that wxWidgets (our GUI framework) works.

We could map the top-level nodes to blank pages to get around it…

[Fabi]

Hi, I think its more common to make the top-level node to an blank page and add an subnode(I don’t know if this is the rightword) with Layer setup

[jos]

The quite very common way these days is to use the top node as basic/default settings tab.
Sub-levels contain additional ‘advanced’ or more in detail set up parameters.