Post #2263354
2026-03-23 16:12 UTC
So you know all those footprints with a polarity or pin 1 indicator? And you know how on practically every board you make, you need to move it for at least one footprint? Like it's right on top of the neighboring footprint's pad, or it's over some other unmasked region, or it's too close to its neighbor making it unclear as to which component it's meant for, or it goes off the board edge, or any more of a dozen things that make you need to move the damned marking.
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@alpenglow@mstdn.social 2026-03-23 16:12
And you know how these are graphical elements tied to the footprint? So depending on software package, maybe you have to explode/unlock footprint primitives to move it. In #kicad, you have to edit the local copy of the footprint, which you can only do in the footprint editor which doesn't provide the visual context of the PCB, so it's back and forth a few times to just get the damned mark in the right spot and bob forbid you make a layout change and have to do all of this AGAIN. (3/7)