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[Rene Pöschl <poeschlr@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 18/10/17 12:50, 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...)
>
> 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...
Odd Ref** should work.

But you can also try %R

You can take a look at the kicad library convention [1]. There we 
require the use of a second reference on the fab layer.

You can even look at a footprint of the standard lib that has this 
implemented. I could suggest the R_0805 [2] resistor from the 
Resistors_SMD lib.

[1]: https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-library/wiki/Kicad-Library-Convention

[2]: 
https://github.com/KiCad/Resistors_SMD.pretty/blob/master/R_0805.kicad_mod