Magic determines where to place contacts in the areas painted with the contact layer. I remember someone telling me the command to actually show where the individual contacts are, but I seem to have failed to write it down and I can not find it in the channel logs. Does anyone know off hand?

"cif see <layer_name>" using the CIF name for the layer; e.g., "cif see CONT" or "cif see VIA".

Is there a way to unsee a layer without restarting magic? The manpage does not detail anything and I tried hide and see no and neither worked

see no

should work, e.g.,

see no m1

or

see no allm1

(works with layer aliases). Also, in the GUI, in the layer icons on the right, a right mouse button click will hide a layer and a left mouse button click will show it.