This question is sort of moot because I think I have completed what I wanted to do. But I am curious:
Recently I submitted my boards and gerbers to a pcb assembly house in USA. They called my attention to an error: Many of my SMT footprint pads had nothing on the paste layer. Because my designs had always been assembled by hand, this is an area which I’d neglected previously.
I went about fixing this in a couple of ways.
The first, obvious way is to go through every pad on every footprint in the library, and click the box for the paste layer. Using the footprint editor, I could not find any way around doing this for each pad individually. So 12 operations for a 12 pin footprint.
Then the second thing I did was (after backing up all of my footprints in a zip file) I opened the footprint file and did a find>replace all using a text editor.
Both of these methods worked, but…Is there a better way that I could have done this?
I hereby certify that I am not simply asking someone else to design a footprint for me.
This is an auto-generated message that is in place on the “footprints” section of the KiCad.info forum. If I remove it and ask for a footprint to be designed anyway, I understand that I will be subject to forum members telling me to go design my own footprint or referring me to a 3rd party footprint site.