in an old project i’ve managed to place a ‘target’ object (not a grid/drill origin) but i can not remember how i did it, here you can see what it looks like:
i cannot find the way from menu or button, maybe there is an hot key?
i have attached a pcb file containing the target.
delme7.kicad_pcb (2.6 KB)
IIRC, which is always a risk these days, they are called fiducials and are now in the library.
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Recently I saw an unfamilar mark in a PCB made by someone else. In the screenshot, the grey is the Grid Origin, the Red is the Drill / Placement Origin and the white mark on the right is the mark I am not familiar with. It disappears when I hide the Edge.Cuts layer (which is weird), and when I examine it’s properties, it only shows: Target Properties, with some options to set. This thing also grows and shrinks with zooming, so it has a “real size” (which you can enter in the box), and this is un…
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That one is not in my Fudicial lib.
However, I can copy it from your posted PCB file, then paste it into another PCB and it’s a polyline so, I can move it into other layers by python just like other polylines
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Ha! that’s why i couldn’t find the way to place it.
However the ‘plumbing’ is still in place even in 8.0.0-rc2, they have only removed the faucets
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