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FIGURE 5-24 Hiding layers.
This is actually quite a mess. Labels are in different-sized fonts, and some are overlapped by the
part outlines. This is quite common because the parts that we have used have been provided by
different manufacturers all with their own standards of EAGLE part design. There is some tidying up
to be done.
For instance, there is not really any need to label every LED. Just labeling LED1 and LED10
would be fine. To remove the extra labels, we need to use the Smash command to separate the labels
from the parts. In fact, we are probably going to end up modifying, moving, or deleting pretty much
every label on the board.
Very few of the labels are in the correct place, so we may as well smash them all by selecting the
Smash command, selecting the Group command, dragging over the whole board area, and from the
right-click menu selecting “Group: Smash.”
Having used Smash to separate the labels from the components themselves, carry out the
following actions to do some tidying up:
• Move the labels for LED10 and LED1 away from the holes.
• Delete the labels for LED2 through LED8.
