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Create footprints: Visible markings

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Create footprints: Visible markings

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- [Instructor] Now that we've got our hidden elements in place, it's time to put some information on the board that will persist all the way through into the finished object. And these kinds of indicators can be useful when it comes to populating the board, when you're placing components on the board and need to remember which part goes where and what orientation. So we already have this square here and this dot, although these will both become invisible in the manufacturing process, so I'm going to switch over to layers that do stay visible. And the first one that I'll use is called tNames, number 25. So sometimes we reuse parts, parts that have the same footprint can have a variety of different functions. So it can be useful to just give this a place holder name, which I'll do with a >name, and I might put this up here for example. So we'll have name, Escape, Escape, and then on layer 27 we'll have tValues. Also done with the text key, and value. So we're leaving those as place…

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