Including fiducial info in .pos file

[moritz]

I can’t find a solution to have the fiducial position included in the .pos file. I’m using version 5.1.0-0
Any solutions for this issue? Thanks!

Edit: I actually can include certain fiducial footprints and others not, is it anything to do with the library? It’s a big problem I have 80+ designs here with 4 fiducials each, so any manual editing solution for each fiducial is a big pain.

[Seth_h]

POS file outputs SMD footprints. So you will want to mark your footprint SMD.

[moritz]

That works, thanks Seth_h! Is there any way this can be overridden or globally set or similar, as I have rather a lot of designs to go through and setting this for every fiducial is very annoying?

[Seth_h]

I’d set it in your footprint file and then update the footprints the identifier like this:

[Rene_Poschl]

@Seth_h

I’d set it in your footprint file and then update the footprints the identifier like this:

Maybe we should add that this assumes you have the footprint in a personal library. If you change a footprint supplied with kicad inside the original library then your change will be overwritten on the next update. (or you lock yourself into the current library version.)

[Seth_h]

I think the official footprints are already set to Surface mount, no?

[Rene_Poschl]

The ones i checked have (attr smd) so you might be correct here. (I did not check all of them)

[moritz]

We must have picked up an old footprint somewhere, how annoying… thanks for you help guys!