Hello,
I’m trying to “Show” a Field stored in the Symbol Properties on my Schematic in Eeschema. I could click into each component’s properties, select the field, and choose Visability “Show” but I figured editing the text in notepad might be easier.
The problem is that each component’s “position” is all over the place - not aligned anywhere near where the actual component is located. This would be a huge chore to clean up. So I’m trying to set the position to null. Here is what a line looks like in notepad.
SHOWN:
F 4 "CAP CERM 10uF 16V 20% X7R ROHS" H 0 0 50 0000 C CNN "Description"
HIDDEN
F 4 "CAP CERM 10uF 16V 20% X7R ROHS" H 0 0 50 0001 C CNN "Description"
The numerical digits after the “H” are the position. For example “H 5815 2240” is the position. If I just do a find and replace on the “0001” to “0000” then it will “show” the field. But by leaving the position field as default “0 0” the location is messed up when opening Eeschema. The “Description” is out in left field somewhere.
What can I replace “H 0 0” with to “null” it out and force the software to position everything near the component? I tried “H . .”. I tried just blank. But it actually breaks the entire schematic when I do that.
Thanks for your advice!
Jay