When importing footprint libraries from Altium Designer into KiCad 9.0, I encountered an issue regarding thermal relief spoke angle settings. In Altium Designer, there is no need to specifically configure the pad property for thermal relief spoke angle. However, after importing these libraries into KiCad, the pad properties for all footprints default to a 45° thermal relief spoke angle.
I have not been able to find a method to modify this setting uniformly across all imported footprints. With a large number of affected footprints, currently the only solution appears to be modifying each footprint individually within the footprint editor.
Are there any efficient methods or recommended approaches to address this issue?
I believe that after modifying one and comparing old/new (footprints are text files) you should find how to do correct text replace in all files. I remember doing such operations when I have changed my decisions how my footprints in KiCad will be defined (it was 2017…2018).
At that moment I don’t remember if my file manager (I use FreeCommander) or text editor (Notepad++) had the option to execute replace in all files in all sub-directories.
I don’t know Python. I have never tried to run scripts in KiCad.
I was writing about Find/Replace function in any text editor. But I remember that after selecting what to replace with what I had the opportunity to specify in what files to do it (including browsing through directories).
