
Maybe there’s another way in CircuitStudio, but I never found it. We are a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures, tests and sells analog. On Altium Designer this isn’t an issue, I believe, because it has more configuration options for pads and so you don’t have to ‘cheat’ like you do in CircuitStudio. Texas Instruments has been making progress possible for decades. What I then have to do is deleted the hole/pad and create a KiCad one. What you have to do is create a pad with a hole bigger than the pad size specified, and uncheck the ‘plated’ option…so you end up with a simple hole in the FR4.Īs far as I can see though, KiCad doesn’t support holes bigger than pads, so when I import this Pcb Kicad reduces the hole size down to a bare minimum. Searching occurs when the list is interrogated as part of model-link verification, for example, when compiling the project, synchronizing, or running a simulation. In CircuitStudio you cannot create non-plated, pad-less, copperless holes (say Pcb mounting holes). Libraries are searched in the order they appear in the Available Libraries dialog in the order of the tabs, then in the order of the libraries listed within each tab. What I got was a pad the ccorrect shape but a very small hole in the centre. I imported a pcb from Altium CircuitStudio (latest) and the mounting holes I had created in CircuitStudio did not import properly into KiCad. Not sure where to post a possible issue in KiCad V6.
