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Reference Designator vs ${REFERENCE}


 

Hi,

I'm somewhat new to Kicad and PCB design for that matter.? When placing footprints on the PCB it seems that the Footprint Properties by default have both a "Reference Designator" and an unamed property who's value is ${RFERENCE} [screen shot attached] which seem to equate to the same thing on the resulting PCB [screen shot attached].? Are both of these needed?? I know I can turn off the "show" property for one of them -- but I'm wondering how they different, if both are actually needed, and if not is there a "bulk" update I can do to hide either one of them across all the footprints without having to click into each footprint?? ??

Thank you,
-richie

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