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Hello,
I try to realize a button like this:
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I do not know the name that carries, nor how to do in kicad
Thank you for your help
The footprint wizard is Stage 5: Awesome.
Here you go [image]
Uses pads only, so should have no problem with pcbnew.
Also for square buttons :
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I’d like to duplicate this pattern as a device:
[image]
The challenge is that the gold-colored meandering bit is not a conductive trace; it’s the non-conductive gap between the gray-colored conductive areas. For those who care, this is where the conductive pad of a rubber keypad makes contact on the PCB.
I my head I picture this as two adjacent filled areas separated by a meandering “keep-out” line.
How best to do this in KiCad? Also, there are 30-ish of these, so I’d like to make it a foot…
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