Dear all,



Is there any way to define arbitrary copper in the footprint editor? I
want to make a shunt resistor out of the PCB.


Thanks,
Levente

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Hi Levente

Is there any way to define arbitrary copper in the footprint editor? I
want to make a shunt resistor out of the PCB.

Hmmm . . . not that ive seen.

I would just pour some copper in the shape that you need.
You can intersect it with traces of the same net.
That way you can make the Kelvin connection.

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Hi,

I have done footprints with extra copper on the surface. Just draw them on
the silk screen layer, then edit by moving them to the required copper
layer. I have even copied them over and move them to the mask layer. This
is how you can make fancy copper pads on one side of the board only.

I have done that with Kicad v. 4.07 but have not tried it on 5.0

Good luck .


On Wed, December 12, 2018 5:17 pm, Al Dutcher alziedood@...
[kicad-users] wrote:

Hi

Levente

On 12/12/18 6:13 PM, Lev

leventelist@... [kicad-users]

wrote:


Is

there any way to define arbitrary copper in the footprint

editor?

I want to make a shunt resistor out of the PCB.

Hmmm . . . not that ive seen.


I would just pour some copper in the shape that you need.
You can intersect it with traces of the same net.
That way you can make the Kelvin connection.



--

AC2CL
I do not think there is any thrill that
can go through the

human heart like that felt by the inventor as

he sees some creation of

the brain unfolding to success...

Such emotions make a man forget food,

sleep, friends, love, everything.

- Nikola Tesla

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Last time I tried such a thing it was necessary to draw what I wanted using Inkscape, then export a high rez bitmap, then use the bitmap import tool which gives a shape on the silkscreen layer. Finally I had to edit the ascii file to change the layer designation to the required copper layer.

Is there now a better way to do that?

Andrew