Mirroring footprints in Pcbnew(not geometry just coordinate)

[Mike_Lemon]

I have a symmetric hole pattern I want to follow on one side(say the right one) and I’d like to select all those holes on the right after placing them and mirroring them symmetrically across the Y axis,
Is there a standard builtin kicad tool to do it? (Similar to the circular patter tool)

If not, is there an available tool that someone made to do this task?

[John_Pateman]

Have you tied the ‘Create array’ tool under the ‘Special tools…’ contextual menu? (Cmd T on macOS)

Just need to know how far to the midline.

[paulvdh]

I just selected a whole PCB, then:

• Press [Ctrl + c] to copy it.
• Click the mouse somewhere to unselect the selection.
• [Ctrl + V] to paste, which attaches the copy to the mouse cursor.
• Press f to flip the board (This mirrors the PCB, flips Front and Back copper and footprints, etc)
• Place it somewhere.

The result looks like:

From there on you can delete what you don’t need, or you could have put more effort into only selecting what you wanted in the first place.

[PaulF8080]

The circular pattern tool is for the footprint editor. You can’t add footprints with pin numbers in pcbnew without the schematic connections.

[BlackCoffee]

@PaulF8080

You can’t add footprints with pin numbers in pcbnew without the schematic connections.

No problem in v5.1.10 - can make Circular Array and No need for Schematic (the pin numbers remain as defined in the Footprint). I’m not going to bother testing schematic and annotating, re-setting numbers… Since I use Schematics only 25% of the time, 75% of my work is done exclusively in PCBnew…