How to move a part to a different layer without jacking up the wiring?

[m00dawg]

I would like to move some resistors and pin headers to the bottom of the board instead of the top, but want to do it without screwing up all my wiring. If I do a flip and rotate, that only works on the devices with one row of pins but it also tries to put the first wire sections on the same layer which makes vias everyone.

This is really just for doing silkscreen on the bottom of the board so it's not totally required, but sure would be nice.

Any ideas?

[nILS]

Eagle? If so,

you can't, as obviously it'll screw up your wiring with components that are not SIL or 2 pins.

If you want to just keep the wiring (even though it'll be pretty screwed), just select the component and flip the layer, then group all the traces that got moved to the top layer and do "change layer bottom" (or "ch lay top" respectively) on that group. That gets rid of the wires on the wrong layer and also removes the vias.

[m00dawg]

Damn, that's what I feared. Oh well.

[findbuddha]

If it's just for the silkscreen on the bottom you could manually draw the footprint on that layer

[m00dawg]

Yup that's probably what I will do. Oh well.