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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/18/2017 6:50 AM, Thomas Langås wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 12:04 PM, Gaurav Juvekar
> <gauravjuvekar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Summary:
>>> - Does KiCad support having an F.Assembly and B.Assembly layer?
>>> - Does KiCad support "special strings" like Altium's .Designator ?
>> I think F.Fab and B.Fab is what you want. Reference designator is supported using "REF**"
> 
> (I guess this mailinglist might be the wrong place for this discussion
> now, but...)

This is the developers mailing list.  You should use the user's forum at
https://forum.kicad.info/.  Typically user questions have a better
chance of being answered there.

> 
> So, I tried adding a text string to the component (in the footprint
> editor) with REF** on the
> F.Fab layer.  Afterwards I did change the footprints in the PCB
> schematics, and now I
> see REF** on the F.Fab layer, and not the actual reference designator.
> I'm using a nightly build
> that is 14 days old...
> 

You need to use %R for the reference and %V for the value.