Hi,
Does anybody knows if the “Custom Shape Primitive” has disappeared from nightly’s footprint editor because it is under development for some fantastic new features or if there is now some magical options to access to it ?
(kicad-nightly-7.99.0.3819.gfcc6dec0e4-x86_64.exe)
Thanks
I think it is replaced by right-clicking the pad and choosing “Edit Pad as Graphic Shapes” (in footprint editor).
KiCad V7 already has the Edit Pad as Graphic Shapes but after adding some lines to a pad in the footprint editor I still see the Custom shape Primitives in the pad properties.
I have not used V7.99 yet and don’t know more details.
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The “primitives list” is no longer needed with the new custom shape pad workflow
Has someone found a way to edit the number size and position in 7.99 as the described way from 7.0 is not available?
In pad edit mode, add a shape (I used a rectangle on the same copper layer as the pad), select it, then check the “Number Box” property in the properties panel. There might be another way, I’m not sure.
Checking the “Number box” property changes the rectangle from copper to a non-copper definition of where the number and net name should be placed.
If you check the “Number box” property on a rectangle that previously was copper, the copper will go away. In order to put the number on a copper rectangle, you have to make a new rectangle on top of the copper rectangle and make the new rectangle the number box.
[Just writing it out explicitly so I remember the next time…]
Also described here, I see:
In order to put the number on a copper rectangle, you have to make a new rectangle on top of the copper rectangle and make the new rectangle the number box
I didn’t get how you make it a copper pad as in JeffYoung picture. Mine stays empty even with ‘Filed’ box checked.
you have to draw another copper rectangle for the real copper.
The number box is only for the number, it creates no copper.
so you have to draw:
OK, thank you for the precision.
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