Post #2263355
2026-03-23 16:12 UTC
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.
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@alpenglow@mstdn.social 2026-03-23 16:12
AND to top it all off, once you do this, you get those annoying DRC warnings about your footprint on the PCB not matching the footprint in the library. You continue on blithely ignoring these, relying on yourself to remember when you go back to this board in 6 months that they don't matter, but also thinking that one day you constantly ignoring this warning will most certainly bite you in the ass. The pain of all this is real, right? (4/7)