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pcb ipc render now draws a realistic view of a board, board array or fab panel — top and bottom side by side, or one with --side: outer copper under a translucent mask, the finish in its openings, the legend, and holes and routed material cut through. Colours come from each side's stackup inks, and SVG, PNG and terminal output all work.
`pcb ipc render --side top|bottom` draws a board, board array or fab
panel as it looks from outside: outer copper under a translucent mask,
the surface finish in the mask's openings, the legend clipped to the
mask, holes, slots and routed material cut through, and V-score grooves.
Everything beneath the outer copper and every non-physical layer is left
out, and the bottom is mirrored as the board looks turned over.
The view is ordinary artwork over one shared document, so the existing
SVG, PNG and terminal backends draw it. Mask, legend and finish colours
come from the stackup; the rest of the palette is neutral greys, so
traces read by brightness under a mask of any colour.
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Everything that is not board is now one more cut, shared by every layer:
artwork hanging over the profile or crossing a profile cutout no longer
shows, and the view frames the board rather than whatever reaches past
it. With cuts that clear on any layer, the stack is always the same six
layers and takes no branches for a side without a legend, scores or a
mask.
Each side's mask and legend ink comes from its own stackup layer. The
stackup summary selects its first inks from the same lookup.
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`pcb ipc render` with neither `--layer` nor `--side` draws the top and
the bottom side by side. Every side is the same stack under its own
placement, the bottom turned over in the geometry itself, so the
mirrored render option is gone and one, the other or both sides are one
path.
A side without a mask layer is bare rather than masked all over; a mask
layer that opens nothing still masks the whole side.
akhilles
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feat(ipc): render the finished board from one side
feat(ipc): render the finished board
Sep 22, 2026
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An inline image was capped at 1200 px however large or dense the window,
about a third of a Retina terminal's width. It now fits the window's own
pixels, as the terminal reports them: its full width and two thirds of
its height at most.
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A drill span that names one end reached both surfaces. The end it leaves
out is now the top's, then the bottom's, as the importer reads a slot's,
so a hole opens only onto the sides its span ends at.
A render fitted within a box could land a rounding error past the edge
that binds and come out a pixel over; it is clamped to the box.
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pcb ipc rendernow draws a realistic view of a board, board array or fab panel — top and bottom side by side, or one with--side: outer copper under a translucent mask, the finish in its openings, the legend, and holes and routed material cut through. Colours come from each side's stackup inks, and SVG, PNG and terminal output all work.