Electronic – Altium: How to hide silkscreen designator for specific components

To mass-hide all component designators:

• Shift+F, then click on a component designator
• It says Object Kind, Text, Same. Change the box String Type, Designator from "Any" to "Same"
• Click OK
• All component designators are selected.
• In the PCB Inspector, click Hide->True
• If you have some hidden already, this will Unhide all
• Click again to hide all

When you want to unhide them all, go into a component dialog and uncheck Hide in the Designator area. This will give you something to click on for the Shift+F operation.

Around 0.15 min line width and 1.5 mm height should be big enough.

There isn't any standard about how to arrange the ref des in the PCB. Just try to make it as useful as you can. That's the reason that there is no point in putting it underneath of components.

As some mentioned, ellipsis (Rx.. Ry) are fine, as well rearranging the ref des in the same way than the physical components in a space nearby.

The key point is thinking about who is going to read/use that silkscreen.

If something is ambiguous, I would delete it. It can cause more problems.