Custom footprint show up in footprint position file

[eelik]

[Rene_Poschl]

Check where the huge red arrow points to

[iitgrad]

Ok, I finally found it. Thank you. Note on the Mac there are two preferences menus both labeled the same thing.

Using the one under Kicad I now see what I needed to check. But this menu does look different than what was posted as it appears to be limited just to foot print editor options.

[eelik]

@iitgrad

But this menu does look different than what was posted as it appears to be limited just to foot print editor options.

That’s what Rene said - you have to have a KiCad subapplication (pcbnew, fp editor, eeschema, symbol editor) open to see the corresponding Preferenced dialog pages. And that’s a bit weird.

The point in finding the Magnetic pads option was that in the left hand navigation tree “Footprint Editor” is a page, not just a top level parent name. You have to click “Footprint Editor” to see these options. Compare your last screenshot with this (from your earlier screenshot):

This has caused problems to users and has been changed in the development version so that there’s no top level page but only sibling pages.