Hello, I’m new to Kicad. Is there a way to specify the tolerance of drilled holes in a footprint? I don’t see a way to do it in the pad properties dialog.
rance of drilled holes in a footprint?
Thanks for your help,
Terry
rance of drilled holes in a footprint?
I think that’s something you need to discuss with the fabricator.
If there’s no way to do it natively in Kicad, I will add my own notes. Other tools I have used put this information in the drill table, so I thought maybe there was a way to do this in Kicad as well.
The attached image above is a drill table from a design done in Altium.
I add my own notes. For tolerances, I just use boilerplate text in my fab notes. Kicad can help with generating a drill drawing but it’s a bit manual. You can generate a drill dwg in gerber format, then use Kicad gerber viewer to export that gerber to a PCBnew file, the copy/paste from that new pcb file into your target. V9s table function could make it look more like your Altium example.
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