I’m running the latest build of KiCad and there is an interesting new Menu option that pops up when I Right-Click on a footprint called “Create Footprint Array”. However, I don’t see any documentation on this feature in the pcbnew.pdf documentation file.
It appears that this function is not used as a “Distribute Object” function like in other Cad packages where you select the objects and evenly distribute them along an axis. Instead, it seems that the selected footprint will be copied and a new set of footprints be created in an array.
What I wanted to do was to place the five existing DB25 connectors from the NetList on the board at an even spacing. It doesn’t appear that I can use this to do that so I was curious as to how this feature is intended to be used.
Does anyone have any documentation or information available on this new feature?