I’m want to label the pads for particular modules on the back silk screen layer - but there are quite a lot of pads so I would like to do it automatically from the pad ids rather than manually typing in labels for each pad. In Pcbnew each pad has its label matching the schematic - this is what I want to get on the silkscreen, but I can’t figure out how to get them included when I plot to gerber.
I’ve moved other things I wanted on the silkscreen into the appropriate layer via the scripting console ( ie by finding the things I want and calling SetLayer() on them). This works great - but I can’t get find an appropriate object to do that with for the pad ids.
Another option would be to create text and position it via the scripting console - but here I have not been able to get any text to show up on the board. Does anyone know how to generate and display say “Hello world” on the board from the scripting console?
Am I missing some easy way to do this?
Thanks