Group editing of pad dimensions

Layout Footprints
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I’m drawing a footprint of a small on board transformer device. Using the footprint editor I quickly created and placed pads roughly to position and size them later.

Can I group together a bunch of pad and give them a different size at once? Or should I have begun with the right pad size from the beginning and place it multiply afterwards?

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Yes.
Right mouse click on a pad to show the available menu. Towards the bottom of the list are the three actions Copy, Paste & Push pad properties.
Push will work but read practice and understand the purpose of each. In fact, learn to use everything in the list. :slightly_smiling_face:

Yes.
Select, edit and place the first pad. Each subsequent pad placement will stay the same as the first until you edit again.

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The “Push pad properties” to other pads was my preferred tool in the past, but since kicad v9 I have used it only seldom.

With kicad v9 the properties panel was introduced to the footprint editor. So to change some parameters on multiple pads at once:

  • enable left side properties panel
  • select all pads you want to change
  • set the numbers in the fields “Size X” and “Size Y”
  • save

This workflow works for many settings.

@ChristophK : one wish: please write the used kicad version in your opening post, sometimes the answer depends on this (older versions do not offer all functions).

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Hi @mf_ibfeew

I read in another post @ChristophK is using 7.0.11. I don’t know if either of our alternatives are suitable.

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No longer 7.0, running 9.0.7 now

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Thanks. Tried it out under 9.0.7 and works fine.

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