How to change drill size for all pins of a footprint

How can I change the drill size of all pins on one specific custom footprint?

I am creating a custom footprint for an Arduino Micro to through-hole mount into my PCB design. The Arduino format is similar to a standard DIP package, except that instead of conventional IC DIP pins there are two rows of SIP headers (pin pitch and row spacing conform exactly to standard DIP packaging). So, I made a copy of a 40-pin DIP and removed the extra holes. This works fine but for one detail: IC DIP pins are much finer than the SIP header pins. The hole diameter for the DIP pins is too small to properly accommodate a SIP header pin.

How can I increase the hole diameter for all 34 pins of my custom footprint without making any global changes and without having to visit each of the 34 pins individually?

  • Open the footprint in the Footprint Editor
  • Set the selection filter to just Pads
  • Select your pads
  • Open/Show the Properties Manager
  • Change the hole size

Now you didn’t give the version info for the version of KiCad you are using . . . if you are using an old version you won’t have the Properties Manager.

Next time tell us what version of KiCad you are using to not waste anyone’s time :wink:

I’m on 9.0, and you solved my problem, thanks :slight_smile:

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