kvoit:
I thought you made the round shapes in Cu and then placed two SMD pads in there. I tried that, but I cannot connect the pads, probably because the copper isn’t recognized as part of the pad and design rules would be violated
You need pads, that overlay the 'graphic on copper (= the stuff you didn’t do with pads, but which are the membrane button structure) so that the layout tool can connect them.
Also, here are some threads (essentially all I could find after 1 min of searching) in regards to this:
I can generate a complex footprint by either combination of arcs and pads, or bitmap2component, but how do I connect to a net. I tried editing the .kicad_mod file to include a net defintion on the line for each arc, but this throws an error. Is it possible?
I’d like to create footprint for membrane button. Is it possible to do in Kicad?
Something like this:
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Drawing to copper layers is disabled in footprint editor, so I do not know how to draw such shapes.
I am trying to make some rubber contact buttons. I am hacking a bit the kicad functionality, because graphic elements are not allowed in the copper plating layers; but I need to get these graphic elements on the layers to get the buttons working. My plan is to get them manufactured on seeed studio osh park, or other similar.
My front copper layer looks like this:
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I managed to get these graphic elements by bringing a sparkfun library, intended for eagle, and then duplicating all the F…
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