Hide Silkscreens From Individual Parts

Sorry if it's been covered somewhere. I promise I looked through the forum for a while first. :)

I'm building a part/shield that attaches to the Arduino Mini Pro (part provided by Sparkfun), so I've dropped that part and the other parts I'm using but once I switch over to PCB view the Arduino silkscreen shows up. But I don't need that. I just need the silkscreens for the parts I'm adding.

Cheers, Derek.

Posted 11 months ago by Derek Kinsman

Hi Derek,

I don't know of a way to hide the silkscreen for an individual part while keeping the silkscreen visible on another set of parts.  

There's a hack that might work--try it at your own risk. Find the fzp file for the part in question and open it in a text editor (stash a copy somewhere outside of your Fritzing folders first). Open the file in a text editor, and look for the <views><pcbView><layers><layer layerId='silkscreen'> element. Comment out or delete just the <layer layerId='silkscreen'> line. Restart Fritzing. Probably you won't see that silkscreen anymore.

Don't forget to restore the file when you're done.

- j

Posted 11 months ago by Jonathan Cohen

BTW, did you mean visibility in Fritzing or visibility when exporting?

- j

Posted 11 months ago by Jonathan Cohen

Both. But more importantly for exporting.

Posted 11 months ago by Derek Kinsman

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