Noobie Quick Questions

How do you place via’s as pads? All KiCAD wants to do is draw more tracks. I can’t get the pads to show up on the B>Cu layer

Cheers

Gary

I’ve used LineGrinder to make mill several PCBs from KiCAD gerbers. It will handle two-sided boards, which I’ve never tried. It’s free under an MIT license. You can find it here.

I am not 100% certain i understand that question.

Placing a via is done by using the “v” shortcut while in the track mode.

If you want to place more than one via or if you want to stitch together two planes you need to use a workaround (in kicad version 4. Version 5 i think comes with via stitching support.)

For the via stitching workaround have a look at: Protip: nicer via stitching

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