Comment 8 for bug 592578

Here is a small use case from my usage of KiCAD.

I keep 2 types of graphical info for footprints; courtyards (a recommended boundary for placement) and footprint outlines (showing the physical dimensions of the part and it's pins for when I need to place things close to each other).

At the moment all my footprints are generated via scripts because the module editor is otherwise unusable.

Courtyards go on the comments layer
Part outlines go on the drawings layer
0,0 is the part center for assembly purposes.

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The main problem I have is that I need to hide these details for one side or the other but not both; and this is not possible.

A drawings front/drawings back, Comments front/comments back set of layers might work.

Even better would be a module specific layer that the renderer can draw or not depending on the side the footprint is sitting.