Post #2263356
2026-03-23 16:12 UTC
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?
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@alpenglow@mstdn.social 2026-03-23 16:12
Again, I don't know why this didn't occur to me anytime over the past 10 years, but yesterday something in my brain went CLICK! and I was like - why the fuck don't these act like reference designators? Reference designators I can move all over in the PCB editor without changing the footprint, and DRC don't give a shit. So wait....maybe if I create a new footprint field for polarity markings, and just put "+" and "-" as text, I could be free of this bullshit? HOLY FUCKING SHIT. (5/7)