How can i divide Circular PCB in regular segment?

[FrancescoC]

Hi all.
I am making a toy clock using a circular PCB.
How can i divide the PCB in 60 regular segment please?

Regards
Francesco C

[wxE5]

It’s not quite clear to me what exactly you need. But to place footprints in a circular fashion you can use “Special Tools” → “Create Array” → “Circular Array”.

If you want a fancy board shape with notches or cutouts for every minute, I’d suggest using an external tool (e.g. librecad) to draw the shape and import it into KiCAD as the drawing tools in KiCAD are severely lacking in that respect.

What I often do is to create the important shapes and positions of features in an external program. Then I import the DXF into KiCAD and use it as a template to position the parts manually.

[Piotr]

@FrancescoC

How can i divide the PCB in 60 regular segment please?

In KiCad 5.1.12 PCB Preferences I have Rotation Angle. Default set to 90. I changed it to 6, draw a line and when I selected it pressing R rotated it 6º.

[Dmitri_Ivanovich_Shi]

Oh my, I had no idea! Thank you for this info.

[FrancescoC]

Hi. Thank you very much for your help.
Francesco C

[paulvdh]

Also,

In KiCad’s Plugin and Content Manager (accessible via the project manager) there is also a “Place Footprints” plugin, which can apparently place footprints in a circle.

That plugin may have more functionality then KiCad’s own circular array function.