Button contacts for PCB

[cwave]

Hello,
New member and first question. Thank you in advance for any help with this issue!
I was wondering if there is a way in KICAD to make a contact button on the PCB for a conductive silicon button or something else conductive to activate. In other words, is there a way to design the contact on the PCB to act like a switch as seen on remote controls and keyboards.
Thank you again.

[Chris_Morgan]

There may be contact button footprints that you can use but typically for these kinds of buttons it’s as straight forward as a footprint with fingers that are bridged by the conductive buttons.

I’d search for existing contact buttons and if you don’t find any you could create a custom footprint with those interleaving fingers.

[Rene_Poschl]

Do you mean something like the thing that is discussed in either of the two following topics? (I don’t know why the first topic has been flagged. @Joan_Sparky can you look into it? It seems like a good example topic for such a footprint.)

Switch gamepad?

Hello, I try to realize a button like this: [image] I do not know the name that carries, nor how to do in kicad Thank you for your help

The second topic used a much more complicated layout.

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