Making a good assembly drawing for hand soldering out of the KiCAD PCBNew

Everybody is assembling boards he?

Just came up with this version to get greyscale board overviews for hand-assembly.

What I really miss now is the option to have a Top and Bottom user layer, where I could put the REF** value on. Currently it resides on Eco1, but this doesn’t work as Top/Bottom and I get both layers REF values on the printout…

Or the footprints would need to allow me to set the layer assignment for REF/VAL to more than one layer… that would work too…

Anyhow, my current method is described here:

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