It is not very well documented and there are no shortcut keys that I can see.
The functions are all on the right-click context menus. This is one area where a simple macro or a repeat last operation key would be very helpful Move cursor to a pad. Right click and select edit pad, (sort out any confusion as requested) Now you can move, drag or edit the pad. You can also select new pad settings, export pad settings and global pad settings. Modify a a pad, then export. That will make whatever you exported the default. If you select a pad, edit and then new pad settings, the selected pad will take on the exported settings. The global settings can change the pads of a module or all modules of a similar type. I've not quite got the hang of the filters, but a bit of trial and error should clear that up. You sometimes find one pad that does not change, usually the power pads, but a quick manual edit of that pad is easy enough. I have found one major issue that is dependant on how the module was created in the first place. With SMD pads, the docs recommend that the shape of the pad is kept the same for all cases. i.e. you use a horiz. oblong for the left and right hand sides of the packages pads. For the top and bottom you use the same, but select the 90 degree angle. Doing things this way allows you to do global changes without problems. I have found that modules that have the pads orientation defined by their x and y sizes give a very annoying problem if you use global changes, in that the pads that you change that are the same as the pad edited change OK, but the other pads, i.e. the top and bottom rotate through 90 degrees because you are overriding the x and y settings) and you get one long line of pads. That then needs a bit of manual sorting out. (You have to change the angle) section 11 of the pcbNEW help documentation gives some good tips on managing your libs and mods. Andy On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:43:35 -0000 "josh_eeg" <[email protected]> wrote: > This is proably exactly what I would want to do is it documented anywhere so > I can see how it is done & where are the buttons or short cut keys to do it? > It would be easier to fallow. > > --- In [email protected], Andy Eskelson <andyya...@...> wrote: > > > > A lot of what you want to do is built into Kicad with the pad editing > > system. > > > > If you select a pad change the size and shape to what you want. > > If you then reedit and select global Pad settings you can then change all > > the pads in a module with the Change Module button, or you can change all > > the pads of all the modules with the same ID type by using the Change ID > > Modules button. > > > > Andy > > > > > > > > On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:12:56 -0000 > > "josh_eeg" <josh...@...> wrote: > > > > > modual or foot print file info I want to make pads longer and move them. > > > The file does not contain in plain text the mm or in. > > > Is their a conversion that happens? to the pads. > > > I thought this would be useful for people hand soldering surface mount > > > parts because they would have more room to work with... > > > > > > It could be a bash script or c program. or even web app... > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > > > Please read the Kicad FAQ in the group files section before posting your > > > question. > > > Please post your bug reports here. They will be picked up by the creator > > > of Kicad. > > > Please visit http://www.kicadlib.org for details of how to contribute > > > your symbols/modules to the kicad library. > > > For building Kicad from source and other development questions visit the > > > kicad-devel group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-develYahoo! > > > Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Please read the Kicad FAQ in the group files section before posting your > question. > Please post your bug reports here. They will be picked up by the creator of > Kicad. > Please visit http://www.kicadlib.org for details of how to contribute your > symbols/modules to the kicad library. > For building Kicad from source and other development questions visit the > kicad-devel group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-develYahoo! Groups > Links > > >
