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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.

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Matthew Skala
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