Hi, I am making a custom PCB at home like usual. I am thinking here, to improve the process, I would like to change all the pad hole size for all of the thru-hole components to have the same diameter so I can use only one drill to make the holes. Is it possible with the Kicad? Is there any plugin or script for this?
No this does not exist. After all pads are part of footprints and these are ideally made to fit the component perfectly. So changing pads in a layout is not really an expected usecase.
However, KiCad files are human readable text files so there is always the option of using the text editor. And there is the option to use python scripting.
Yeah, this is what I am looking for dude. Lets wait for the other user answers.
Easy to do with a script I think.
Definitely bobc, and it was easier than expected.
The following command closed my issue.
sed -i "s/(size [0-9]\.[0-9] [0-9]\.[0-9]) (drill [0-9]\.[0-9])/(size 1.7 1.7) (drill 1.0)/g" pcb.kicad_pcbThis topic was automatically closed 90 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.