Hi, everyone. I have a product with castellated hole and another hole nearby.
On the picture below, on the left (marked A) is how I’ve already done. It works fine, but I’d like to somehow improve it. What I most dislike is that on schematics I have to have two itens and I need a track between them. Again, not the end of world, but I want to improve it.
For so, I’ve tried something like the castellated hole on the right (marked B). It has only one item in schematics, but I could not make an ideal footprint. I tried to merge two holes in footprint editor, it seems it will work but definitely not ideal (eg, as the arrow points that the GND pad is not fully solid).
Luckily you are still using KiCad V8 (or older) so I could open your project and look in it.
I see that you created two overlapping pads for the “B” variant, and that is good. The only thing you missed is that only one of the pads has a pad number. Give both overlapping pads the same pad number, and KiCad will then make both pads a member of the same net.
I wait few months prior updating to a new KiCAD version, so I’m still on 8.
Thank you for the feedback. Indeed changing the pad number worked and now the GND pad is fully connected.
I noticed it’s really hard to select the component itself, only selecting the pads, what can be quite annoying through the entire process. Any tip on this?
Yet another request, would it be possible to hide the name of one of the pins?
With a “long click” i.e. holding down the mouse button for about a second, KiCad pops up a menu with a list of everything that is below the cursor, and then you can select the item you want from the list.
As far as I know, there is only: PCB Editor / Preferences / Preferences / PCB Editor / Display Options. With it you can enable or disable pad numbers, but it treats all the pads the same. If you only want to hide some of the numbers (or net names), then KiCad would have to know which texts you want to hide and which not.
