This topic has been posted a number of times in the past and I’ve read through many of them. Further, I have successfully made many, many footprints in the past (I only use footprints that I have made or validated). But… this footprint is giving me problems…
I’m using KiCad V5.1.5-0-10-14 on a Mac Mojave 10.14.6.
The symbol has five pins, two of which are dual numbered, giving seven pins numbered 1 through 7. The footprint has seven pads numbered 1 through 7 but still I get the error messages that pads 1 through 7 cannot be found in the footprint.
Here is a link to a number of files showing the situation. File names are self-explanatory.
In KiCad speak this means there is a single pin with pin number “1,2”.
Pin “numbers” for KiCad are not just numbers, but (at least upto) 4 characters alfanumeric strings. This is for example used in BGA’s where the balls have “chessboard” coordinates.
It does not mean that pin1 and pin 2 are connected to the same MOSfet pin.
This is also reflected in the ERC report that mentions a single pin 1,2 with an error.
Possible solutions are to draw both pins in the schematic symbol, or modify the footprint to have 2 pads with the same pin number for those double pins.
PCB update is complaining about “Q2” while your transistor seems to have a RefDes “Q” without a number.
It’s also complaining about pad numbers not found in some footprint, and there is no info of the footprint.
On top of that, I find working from png images from some external misty server a bit annoying. If you gain a bit of “experience” on this forum, you can zip your KiCad project and upload it here and I’ll have another look at it.
