Hey together,
for this part: SPH6611 i need a smd-ring-pad with a little spacing on the inside to a hole in its middle.
I attached my best effort using a simple THT-Pad Knowles - SPH.zip (530 Bytes) , does someone know how to do this properly?
At the moment thís forum doesn’t allow downloading some file types, including kicad_mod, so you should pack it into zip or put it into an external file service.
Mh i checked my link and for me it seems to work properly… anyway if it still for some reason doesn’t search for “SPH6611LR5H-1MCILRATH-Y”
I tried what you suggested, creating a circle will only let me do so an a grafics Layer, it just ignores that i select f.Cu first.
When use two pads instead, i can select both and choose create shape… in the context menu, but that thros an error “selection contains more than one referenced pad”.
But it was worth a shot, thank you!
Edit - @jos gave the correct answer, i just did not do what is was told to do. @eelik explains more detail below.
That’s a really cool feature, but in this case it doesen’t help since in need something like a annular ring.
If i try it with this method, it just gives me a bigger circle Pad.
The two shapes used:
That’s looks completely different from what I did. It’s important to have the copper pad inside the graphics of the intented custom pad. In this case inside the blue area, not just inside the outer circle border. That’s the idea of a custom pad - you make whatever shape you can with graphics, then place a small anchor pad there to create the anchor point for the new custom pad.
So for anyone interested, here is the finished footprint: Knowles SPH.zip (19.8 KB)
including a .step Modell which was created from files @Aaron_Williams provided here
please check the footprint before using it, it may be incorrect.