FpcRef A Panelization Utility for FreePCB
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FpcRef Description

The FpcRef application was designed to be a panelization cosmetic preprocessor implemented as a console (command line) tool. It can replace component reference designation strings on both sides of the board with text and / or mirror (rotate) the layout about the Y axis. The default behavior, as in earlier versions of this application, is to only replace all reference designations but option switches have been added suppress reference replacement and enable mirroring. The reference designation replacement is done by adding text strings that duplicate each reference, as it currently exists, and hiding the real references by setting both the height and stroke width to zero. The original reference designation values, though invisible, are otherwise unchanged. The mirroring option actually rotates the entire layout about the Y axis as if the layout had been turned over and place face down. The geometry of all features is mirrored and layer order of all objects is inverted Each .fpc file processed results in a new file being created with, depending on which options are enabled, "_ref", "_mir" or "_refm" appended to the file name. The original file is unchanged. For example, by default, demo.fpc produces demo_ref.fpc with only the references changed. If mirroring is also enabled, the new file is named demo_refm. If only mirroring is enabled, the output file is named demo_mir. Note: text should only consist of normally printable characters (code 0x20 - 0x7e). Characters outside this range may cause text location errors when mirrored and, if location critical, could require touch up.

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