[kicad-users] How do you make a pad that is a custom shape?

[David Gravereaux [e-mail] [kicad-users]]

Hi,

if not circle, oval, square, or trapezoid, how do you do it?

See pads 5,6,7,8 on page 7. Their inner corners beveled.
http://www.knowles.com/jpn/content/download/5788/93144/version/1/file/SPK0838HT4H-B.PDF

[David Gravereaux [e-mail] [kicad-users]]

Post by David Gravereaux ***@pobox.com [kicad-users]
if not circle, oval, square, or trapezoid, how do you do it?

In a build from source, there's rounded rectangle now, but that doesn't
work for me either

[Andrey Kuznetsov [e-mail] [kicad-users]]

You have to use at least 3 pads, use the same pin number, 2 rectangles and
a square, rotate the square 45 degrees to make a chamfer.

Post by David Gravereaux ***@pobox.com [kicad-users]

Post by David Gravereaux ***@pobox.com [kicad-users]
if not circle, oval, square, or trapezoid, how do you do it?

In a build from source, there's rounded rectangle now, but that doesn't
work for me either

[David Gravereaux [e-mail] [kicad-users]]

Post by Andrey Kuznetsov ***@gmail.com [kicad-users]
You have to use at least 3 pads, use the same pin number, 2 rectangles
and a square, rotate the square 45 degrees to make a chamfer.

nailed it, thanks

[Amphibious [e-mail] [kicad-users]]

Post by David Gravereaux ***@pobox.com [kicad-users]
See pads 5,6,7,8 on page 7. Their inner corners beveled.
http://www.knowles.com/jpn/content/download/5788/93144/version/1/file/SPK0838HT4H-B.PDF

Since they’re all Ground pads, does the shape really matter?

[David Gravereaux [e-mail] [kicad-users]]

Post by Amphibious ***@c-base.org [kicad-users]

Post by David Gravereaux ***@pobox.com [kicad-users]
See pads 5,6,7,8 on page 7. Their inner corners beveled.
http://www.knowles.com/jpn/content/download/5788/93144/version/1/file/SPK0838HT4H-B.PDF

Since they’re all Ground pads, does the shape really matter?

One man's ground is another man's power return. Yes it does. Mainly
for the solder mask.

This is how it turned-out. The board went off to manufacture yesterday

[David Gravereaux [e-mail] [kicad-users]]

Post by David Gravereaux ***@pobox.com [kicad-users]
One man's ground is another man's power return. Yes it does. Mainly
for the solder mask.

I'll revise my statement to say the solder stencil counts more than the mask