I have added the footprint information to various components in Eeschema (e.g. added sm0402 to a resistor).
A purple label then appears indicating the that a footprint has been assigned.
Is there anyway of globally turning the visibility of the the footprint fields on or off? So I can chose to view or not view all the little purple labels.
Best Answer
I don't know the direct method, but you can manually modify the text file *.sch (remember to backup before modifying). For every component, there is a record in .sch file, and the footprint field is normally field number 2, e.g:
the value of 0000 near the end indicates that this field is "visible", and you need to change this to 0001 ("invisible")
How? by regular expression. I used the following command in vim:
you can try sed or any kind of text-processing app to do it.
Source: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Kicad/file_formats#Description_of_a_component