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I have this design in which I want it to be an option to either solder wires to pads or use a 2.54mm screw terminal. So I modified one of them.
If I want to duplicate the result, what is quickest method?
I can think of
make a copy and keep it in my personal library
delete all others, copy paste the modified one and manally annotate the pasted ones.
Are there more options which I don’t know about?
I was hoping that there is something similars like ‘push pad properties to other pads’ but for footprints?
I assume the source is a footprint from a default library. Those should never be changed by users, so the next best thing is to make a copy, which you apparently already did. After that it’s mostly library management.
Select the footprint on the PCB.
Press [Ctrl + e] to load it in the Footprint Editor.
From the Footprint editor save it into a library (you may have to create it first).
Go back to the Schematic editor, because it is the root of all electronic parts in KiCad.
In the Schematic Editor, update the footprint links to point to the new footprint.
Schematic Editor / Tools / Update PCB from Schematic [F8] to push the modified footprints to the PCB.
