No B.Mask option in plot

Manufacturing
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I have finished my board and want to send it out for manufacturing. When I select to Plot->Gerbers, there is no option to plot the bottom solder mask. All other layers are there. I am I just missing it??

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Help GREATLY appreciated. I have until the end of the day to get this fixed and out to make my printer’s holiday cut off.

Thanks!!

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Never mind, I found my problem. B.Mask was not selected in Design Rules > Layer Setup. Once I selected it, it came across on the Plot popup.

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Hi

I am using 5.0.2 and cannot find the Layer Setup.I have found Design Rules…
in pcbnew but cannot find this tab/option.

Application: kicad
Version: 5.0.2-bee76a0~70~ubuntu18.04.1, release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.4
libcurl/7.58.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1 zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.4 libpsl/0.19.1 (+libidn2/2.0.4) nghttp2/1.30.0 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Linux 4.15.0-88-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 2.24
Boost: 1.65.1
OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
Curl: 7.58.0
Compiler: GCC 7.3.0 with C++ ABI 1011
Build settings:
USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
KICAD_SPICE=ON

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Found it now. pcbnew. top menu item “Setup”
First option in drop down is “Layers Setup” which is not in the design rules now.
After adding the B.Mask is appeared (unticked initially) in the PLOT window.

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The 5.0 series is no longer supported, you might consider updating to 5.1.5.

And in future please do not reactivate a 4 year old post no matter how similar your problem seems to be KiCad moved on so much that nothing is similar to back then.

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