I have this battery holder footprint:
How can I change the two blue dot to actual holes?
Do I need to make ground ring around them?
like those mounting holes?
Another question I have in similar matter -
how can I place this battery holder on the other side of the board so I will be able to place components on the top side?
right now if I place components on top of this battey footprint I’m getting kind of red alert
They are actual holes - the blue dot it “NPTH, Mechanical” type (not plated through holes).
Not sure what is your reason to change them to pad type, but if you really want to do it - edit footprint, select the blue dot, press E (for edit) and change the type from “NPTH, Mechanical” to “Through-Hole” and change the pad size to be bigger than the hole size.
Answering your second question - press F.
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THANKS!
How can I rotate a component 45 degrees? or any other degrees that is not 90 degrees?
Footprints can be rotated counter-clockwise using the R hotkey, or clockwise using Shift+R. By default, footprints are rotated by 90 degrees every time the rotate command is used, but you can configure the rotation angle step in Preferences → PCB Editor → Editing Options.
You can directly set a footprint’s exact absolute position, rotation angle, and PCB side using either the Footprint Properties dialog or the Properties panel.
Do you know that in many document-viewing applications there is search function?
If you know the key word (in this case ‘rotate’) using search function you can find what you need in most cases.
When in my web browser (I use Opera) I open KiCad PCB Editor documentation then click Ctrl+F (in Windows standard key combination for search) and in opened edit window write ‘rotate’ the first hit is just what retiredfeline copied here.
Last few days it is a discussion here about questions asked at forum by AI that looks their only task is to make people lost their time. Your question looks like meet this task.
In many cases someone just don’t know the right word to search for what makes asking question justified but it is not that case.
Thanks I found it using the help file!