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Moving pads to back of a PCB in KiCad

three-phase
three-phase over 4 years ago

I am having another go at creating a test board for the Hioki BT3554 I roadtested a couple of weeks back.

 

I have progressed slightly after doubling up the pads and tracks in my schematic and this has now allowed me to add the vias through from the front to the back copper tracks. I am still confused by the copper pad positioning and wonder if someone could assist.

 

Once I have imported all of the pads and components using the Netlist, I am able to position them all, but everything is initially all on the front copper.

 

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I go into the properties for the relevant pad and the footprint to convert them from front copper to back copper. On the popup menu, the footprint shows as being on the back copper, but the pad does not, and it does not change to the back copper colour.

 

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However, in the properties, the pad is marked as being on the back copper, but there is a warning that it is flipped.

 

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Can anyone provide any guidance on where I am going wrong? The aim is to have a pads on the front and back copper so that a kelvin clip could be placed over them to make contact with both sides.

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  • hlipka
    hlipka over 4 years ago +6 verified
    You do not move single pads to the back copper, but the whole component (aka 'footprint'). Do this by using 'f' (for 'flip'). When you want to have back and front copper for a single footprint, you do…
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    0 hlipka over 4 years ago

    You do not move single pads to the back copper, but the whole component (aka 'footprint'). Do this by using 'f' (for 'flip'). When you want to have back and front copper for a single footprint, you do that in the footprint editor, not in PCBNew. In the foot print editor you can have multiple pads for the same pin.

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    0 three-phase over 4 years ago in reply to hlipka

    Many thanks for your help. I couldn't get multiple pads in the footprint editor, it just gave me an error message, but using the flip function appears to have worked.

     

    I guess I will send the board away and see what comes back.

     

    Kind regards.

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    0 hlipka over 4 years ago in reply to three-phase

    Do you mean you did not get multiple pads at all in the FP editor? Or not on both sides? For the latter, check this discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/KiCad/comments/bele2z/double_sided_footprint/ (basically a pad has a layer property which you can change between front and back copper).

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