Hi,
I just checked out the latest nightly of v5.99 and was amazed to see progress towards real pad stacks and there is a new option for TH pads, that allows you to select on which layers pads shall be drawn.
So I was hoping that option would exist for vias too. But unfortunately I could not find it so far.
I had a look at the new pcb file format and found the parameter “remove_unused_layers” for pads.
I could successfully add that parameter to existing vias in the file. After reopening the pcb the rings on the inner layers of the edited top-bottom vias were gone.
Bingo - that’s what I wanted.
But - editing the pcb-file manually or via scripts is pretty tedious and error prone.
It would be nice if the existing pad-option would be added for vias too.
Any plans in that regard?
Some logical improvement like this is of course already in the mins eye of the KiCad developers:
but even these amazing guys have a limited capacity in their head (and amount of time they can spend on KiCad).
This virus that’s going round may have helped a bit to keep them home and spend more hours on improving KiCad, but most of them probably still have something resembling a personal life, and I wish hem a lot of happiness with it.
Donations apparently help to speed up KiCads development even fruther: Button in upper right corner of: https://kicad.org/ and there is also https://www.kipro-pcb.com/ which is open to negotiations to speed up specific features in KiCad for a fee as long as they fit within the direction KiCad is moving.
Sounds like a bug/incompletely implemented feature. Maybe submit a bug report for the missing functionality in the via UI (since your experiment shows that the via data structure supports this).
Thanks guys, that’s what I was looking for. Does the job for me.
I wasn’t sure whether the missing feature can be called a bug or it just not implemented yet.
