Exclude Values and References from silkscreen in 3D view

[Andrea_Simeoni]

In the options for 3D view, I can select to show the silkscreen layer, but I don’t understand how to enable Values and References separately. It would also be nice if I can select other layers to be shown as well.

Is it possible?

Application: KiCad
Version: 5.1.10-88a1d61d58~88~ubuntu20.04.1, release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.68.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1f zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.2.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.2.0) libssh/0.9.3/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.40.0 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Linux 5.4.0-74-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.24
    Boost: 1.71.0
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
    Curl: 7.68.0
    Compiler: GCC 9.3.0 with C++ ABI 1013

Build settings:
    USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
    USE_WX_OVERLAY=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
    KICAD_SPICE=ON

[Andrea_Simeoni]

If it’s not possible to do directly in Kicad, is there a workaround using external application?

[der.ule]

The values of your footprints are not normally in the silkscreen layer, but in the Fabrication layer, that is a “logical” layer meant to be use for assembly, if you duplicate the values from the fabrication layer to the silkscreen, the you’ll be able to see them in the 3D viewer, but this will probably annoy you when you do not want the values anymore.

A possible workaround would be to duplicate the values of your footprints on a drawing layer (Dwgs.User, Cmts.User, Eco1.User Eco2.User) and use the non realistic mode of the 3d viewer to render your values.