I have a KiCad schematics where are values are invisible/disabled. How do I enable all these values at once?
Strange thing is the values are visible in KiCad 7 (where it was created) but invisible when opened in any version post Kicad 7.
Your mouse penmanship is much better than mine. It is legible.
As for your question, I could not begin to answer it…
Ctrl-A to select all, then Edit > Edit Text & Graphics Properties > Scope = Values, Filter = Selected items only, tick Vislble, then Apply
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Thanks for the compliment.
Thanks, retired feline, it works though the placement is a bit weird. Is there a way to stop this behaviour, to not manually now need to move and often rotate every value?
I won’t try to guess why this happens to you. Maybe has something to do with the symbols coming from a non-KiCad library.
Yes, it’s a project started in Eagle. But now can I fix this by using the “change symbol” and still keep connections of all wires and also keep the current values & annotations and this way get “correct” placements as the updated symbols will now be from a KiCad original symbol library?
“Change symbol” (to exchange all legacy eagle ymbols to original kicad symbols) will preserve the connection only if all symbols have the pins on the exact same position.
As this is pure coincidence (or luck) this can’t be guaranteed. So you will have to examine the schematic very carefully to be sure you have the same connectivity before/after the “change symbol”.
Additionally a “change symbol” to use only original kicad symbols will not guarantee that the references/values are in a optimal place.
Nevertheless I would recommend to invest the work, as relying on the imported eagle symbols may give you more issues in the future (only a gut feeling).
My recommendation for “get values radable with fewest effort” is to use the autoplace function: select the whole schematic → RMB-click–>context menu–>Autoplace fields. Will most probably produce a result which is readable on 90% of the symbols.
Thanks, mf_ibfeew, tried that and it places it a bit better, even if it’s too far away from the symbols. Therefore I changed to a smaller grid to see if that might help, to hopefully get the texts placed closer to the symbols, but no change. So the schematics in this case seem has to be adjusted all by hand, per symbol as I see it. What seems strange to me in the first place is why did this happen between the KiCad version update, the version 7 schematics was ok, and that version was also released as a real world project/a produced PCB and then when opened in Kicad 8 and 9 this happened.