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Date:	Sun, 29 Jun 2014 20:24:47 -0400
From:	"Stephen R. Besch" <sbesch AT buffalo DOT edu>
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Just turn on visibility of the component's value attribute. You can do 
this in the footprint itself or in PCB after placement. Then have a look 
at the gerber output to be sure it is there

Stephen R. Besch


On 06/29/2014 04:30 PM, mskala AT ansuz DOT sooke DOT bc DOT ca wrote:
> First, is it possible to design a footprint in such a way that the
> component value will appear in the silkscreen, in addition to or instead
> of the refdes value?  I'm hoping for something more automated than just
> manually adding notes to the silkscreen layer.
>
> Second, is there a way to search the archive of this mailing list going
> back more than a week into the past?  The search function on the archive
> page seems to be limited to that, which makes it hard to find previous
> answers to questions that have likely been asked before.
>
> Finally, are there any plans for the diode schematic symbols and
> footprints to ever agree with each other about which pin is the cathode?
> I have found bug reports about this dating at least as far back as May
> 2005, but nothing seems to have been done about it in nine years.  If I
> will be required to triple check every symbol and footprint and define my
> own a large fraction of the time because there's a significant chance of
> the default ones being as catastrophically broken as diodes are, then that
> may be a dealbreaking issue and is at least something I'd like to know
> about before I invest any more time in gEDA.
>


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