Creating a pad from a DXF import gives error

[Rene_Poschl]

There is a workaround via inkscape plus svg2mod.

Howto connect polygon to net

There is a dxf import in the footprint editor. But i could not find a way to make a filled pad from it. (you get the dxf lines as single graphical lines instead as a polygon. I could not find a way to convert these to a polygon.) I would use inkscape plus svg2mod get your dxf artwork as a polygon into a kicad footprint. This even works in kicad stable. You can then place a pad on top of it to connect to it, or convert that polygon to a pad. (The later only works in nightly builds.) My proble…

but much easier is the new functionality of kicad stepup to export footprints:

KiCad StepUp: The Sketcher for Footprint generation

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