I just started the first layout since upgrading from version 7.6 to 7.7.
Now the net names appear on pads when previously they didn't. See attached
screen shot snippet.
Needless to say, this is rather annoying. I didn't ask for anything like
this when the new version was installed. It just did it. Now I have to
waste time while trying to do a board to figure out how to deal with this.
Argh!
Yo Cadsoft, STOP MAKING GRATUITOUS CHANGES SO THAT NEW VERSIONS DON'T WORK
LIKE THE PREVIOUS ONE. It's good to introduce new features, but never
impose them on people without asking. If you want new users to see a new
feature by default, make sure to have a mechanism that turns it off, and
then do so when upgrading from a previous version that doesn't include that
feature.
I can't rely on Eagle as a tool if new versions change my workflow and pop
new things in my face without my permission!
I might possibly use this new feature in some cases, but that should be for
me to decide when I'm ready, not when I need to get a board out. In this
case, this feature doesn't tell me anything I can't get with Alt-V,N
quickly, but is in my face all the time when I don't care. In the screen
shot example, it's cluttering up the component designators in the tDocu
layer. I looked for some obvious new layer being displayed, but nothing
jumped out.
How do I turn off this feature to get back to the way it worked previously?
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