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 -
josh_eeg josh...@gmail.com 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 kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, 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 -
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...
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