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Yes I have thought that a feature like that would be a good idea. It
should be another column next too the visible checkbox.

On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 7:41 PM,  <mskala AT ansuz DOT sooke DOT bc DOT ca> wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jun 2014, Stephen R. Besch wrote:
>> 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
>
> How can I do this?  I found an "Edit Attributes of... Element" command on
> the Edit menu in PCB, but it shows no attributes; the ones defined in the
> schematic don't seem to survive translation through gsch2pcb.  I can add
> attributes manually with that command in PCB, but there is no way apparent
> to set them visible; it's just a list of text strings.  (They were already
> set visible in the schematic, if that helps at all.)  And the file format
> for footprints doesn't seem to include any way of representing attributes,
> so I don't know how I can add them to the footprint.
>
> --
> Matthew Skala
> mskala AT ansuz DOT sooke DOT bc DOT ca                 People before principles.
> http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/



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