How I can make padstack? It is, eg. 1.2 mm plated hole, bottom side 2 mm annular ring, top side 1.6 mm annular ring?
I try “edit shape as pad”, but shape must be top side and it make effect to all layers
Other jinx? SMD pad with same number, so 1.2 mm plated hole 1.6 annular ring + 2 mm smd pad bottom side?
Manupulate Kicad footprint or pcb ascii-file manually?
Other jinx?
So, need “true padstack” but how?
Something like this ?
Its a normal plated through hole with pads and an additional large SMD circular pad on one side . . . all pads have the same number.
KiCad does not have support for a full padstack (yet). At the moment it only has a function to remove annular rings on layers without an attached track.
As a workaround you can use multiple pads to form a more complex pad. For example use a THT pad for the smallest pad you want, and then add a SMT pad with the same pad number on the layer you want a bigger pad. Using pads with the same pad number to create more complex pads is a common technique in KiCad. It is for example used in all default footprints with the keyword “thermal” in it.
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