In order to calculate labour/solder costs I would like to know how much pads and things I have to solder. Is there already a built-in way in pcbnew to retreive for you how many pads there are?
For instance, I have 2x 16 lead ICs, 10 resistors and 1 6P screw terminal, my magic number would be: 58
For small PCBs I can ofcourse easily calculate by hand like above, but for larger PCBs it could be usefull.
I did find me a relative method Using VS Code to search for ’ pad " ’ (28 hits)
@bask185 : note that the number for SMD-pads in “Inspect ->Show board statistics” includes not only the solder-smd-pads, but also all additional aperture-smd-pads made for mask/paste-holes.
For instance:
Package_DFN_QFN:DFN-6-1EP_3x3mm_P0.95mm_EP1.7x2.6mm is a DFN6-package with Exposed pad. So 6+1=7 solder pads.
But it contains additional 6 aperure pads on paste-layer.
So the displayed total number of pads for this footprint is 6+1+6 == 13
This calculation is also used for the displayed number of pads in the statusbar (bootom left of statusbar if nothing is selected in the board editor)
