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[Jean-Paul Louis <louijp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Damiano,

I second your suggestion, but want to expand it a little, and ask for
new features like array (1D and 2D) of pads.
when you select that array, you give the size of the pad, the pitch and the direction.
That would make life easier for the crazy shapes that we have with new parts like large BGA or QFP.
I know that a Python script can do that, but not many layout designer are fluent in Python.

Just my $0.02.

Jean-Paul (AC9GH)


On Apr 12, 2014, at 3:11 AM, Ing. Damiano Bolla <Launchpad.Net@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Good mornig to everybody
> 
> While creating a footprint for a QFN64 I realized that footprint creation would be a breeze if there was a "clone + (dx,dy)" button in the pad editor
> 
> Let me explain it better
> 
> 90% of the time I spend while creating new footprints for SMD is in adjusting the location of the pad
> The whole process would be very easy if I could tell to Kicad, create a clone of this pad having origin delta X and delta Y from the current origin
> 
> The PAD edit panel would include an extra button possibly called "clone" or "replicate" and two input space for the delta X and delta Y values
> 
> What do you all think of it ?
> 
> Damiano
> 
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