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yaqwsx / PcbDraw

Convert your KiCAD board into a nicely looking 2D drawing suitable for pinout diagrams
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Add option to hide references and values #59

Closed mluessi closed 3 years ago

mluessi commented 3 years ago

I have been playing around with PcbDraw and it's very neat :). One thing I'm wondering is if there is a way to not show the references and values on the silk screen layer.

I was looking through the code to add an option for this but couldn't find where they are added to the SVG. If you can point me in the right direction, I can try to add an option to hide them.

yaqwsx commented 3 years ago

The whole silkscreen is rendered internally in KiCAD. If your board has visible references, then they will be included in PcbDraw. If you want to batch hide references, look at KiKit - you can use command kikit modify references --hide -p '.*' <yourboard> to hide them.

Currently, I do not plan to add such an option to PcbDraw.

mluessi commented 3 years ago

Thanks! I will try the KitKit workaround

set-soft commented 3 years ago

Hi @mluessi ! If you just need to remove the whole "Silk" layer may be the following is enough: INTI-CMNB/PcbDraw#11 What do you think @yaqwsx ?

yaqwsx commented 3 years ago

I think @mluessi wants to preserve silkscreen, but he only wants to only hide references.

INTI-CMNB#11 seems pretty simple, so I would be willing to merge. I am just worried about having a large number of "single-use" options. Does not-rendering silkscreen have a proper use case? Wouldn't it be better if just allow the users to specify a general plot plan from a file and possibly prepare some of them (e.g., full-stack, no-silk)? Note that I have no answers for this, I am just thinking loudly. I welcome any other opinions.