X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Message-ID: <53B0AE4F.2010100@buffalo.edu> Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 20:24:47 -0400 From: "Stephen R. Besch" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [geda-user] Silkscreened component values, mailing list, and gEDA development References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PM-EL-Spam-Prob: X: 10% Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com 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. > -- fictio cedit veritati