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[Jean-Paul Louis <louijp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bob,
I think that your assumption that the pads should be the same is wrong.
Through hole parts are not build with always the same wire diameter.
So the holes diameters will be different. Very often the wire for resistor is larger than the wire for capacitor, and vary from manufacturer to manufacturer.
So I am not sure what your feature would bring to the party.

The pads and hole diameter are part specific, not block of part specific.

Just my $0.02,
Jean-Paul
AC9GH


> On Sep 13, 2015, at 4:45 PM, bob smith <gta4lj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Possibly working on a feature, just wanted to bounce my ideas off you guys.
> 
> The basic idea is as follows:
> 
> As you block select footprints/symbols, the settings dialog shows the settings that are common to all of the selected footprints/symbols.
> 
> E.G. if I selected 2 through hole resistors, and a through hole capacitor, I would be able to set the pad radius for all the selected components, as they all share the same attribute (through hole pad), as opposed to changing one by one. Please correct me if I'm wrong but I haven't seen this in KiCAD yet.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tom
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