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[Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 08:12:23PM +0200, nnn wrote:
> Ok but my question is if I can move values from fab to silks (hidden) as
> they were before in all pretty repos (and change convention) and use Fab
> layers as assembly layers (as in IPC7351) to provide users ready to use
> assembly layer with reference designators.

Why not keeping them on assembly (hidden)? Silk is way too busy and with
too small resolution... in fact it usually can't hold the refdes, either :D

IPC350 has dedicated layers for refdes and values, IIRC.

Whatever choice we make for the 'official' library *can't* satisfy
everyone, there are just too many use cases/workflows...

For example I keep refdes on assembly, values (hidden) in assembly and a
%R on silk for the components which need a refdes on silk (like
connectors, fuses, trimmers and similar). The machine has no use for
silk refdes :P

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