Place--->Place Footprint Automatically

[Dragos]

Must I have make something, before to place the footprints automatically?Because when I selected the footprints, for automatically placement, it do not work.

[eelik]

It doesn’t place the footprints to any better places. It just distributes them so that they don’t overlap. If you updated the PCB from the schematic in a recent KiCad version with the default modern toolkit, you already got the footprints distributed.

[Dragos]

And will it be better to download new release?So far was it descovered any bug?

[kenyapcomau]

If they are not overlapping then you already have “automatic placement” which is not a very good name. You might be interested in a recent plugin that makes the board placement mirror the schematic placement which is somewhat less random than automatic.

Schematic positions to PCB positions plugin

Following an earlier discussion (https://forum.kicad.info/t/simple-script-that-will-copy-position-from-schematic-to-layout-for-an-easier-start/23460/32), and based on an original idea from @jenschr, I’ve written an action plugin available at https://github.com/ian-ross/kicad-plugins that helps with the initial organisation of parts when first creating a PCB layout from a schematic. Running the plugin lays out component footprints in Pcbnew in the same spatial pattern as their corresponding comp…

Placement is one of the hardest parts of board design. I easily spend far more time moving components around than routing.

[Dragos]

I am beginner, in electronic designing automation,and I have some problems with the routing track thorough components.