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Electronics => PCB/EDA/CAD => KiCad => Topic started by: Dan Moos on August 19, 2017, 04:14:47 pm

Title: selecting all vias
Post by: Dan Moos on August 19, 2017, 04:14:47 pm

lets say I want to change the properties of every via in a layout after the fact.

surely I don't have to do them one at a time, right? Can't figure out how to select all vias

Title: Re: selecting all vias
Post by: hermit on August 19, 2017, 04:40:43 pm

KiCAD forum is pretty active.  There are differences depending on what version you use.  Sometimes things like this are done with scripts because everything is human readable.   Even a text editor with search and replace might do this depending on what you need.

Title: Re: selecting all vias
Post by: ElektroQuark on August 19, 2017, 05:43:56 pm

Edit -> Edit tracks and vias

Title: Re: selecting all vias
Post by: hermit on August 19, 2017, 05:49:18 pm

Quote from: EdoNork on August 19, 2017, 05:43:56 pm

Edit -> Edit tracks and vias

What version?  I'm using Debian stable and it has  4.0.5+dfsg1-4  and that isn't an option.

Title: Re: selecting all vias
Post by: Dan Moos on August 19, 2017, 05:55:26 pm

I'm running 4.06 for Windows.

No Edit -> Edit tracks and vias option for me either.

I seriously hope I don't have to write a script to do such a simple task.

Title: Re: selecting all vias
Post by: ElektroQuark on August 19, 2017, 06:49:40 pm

Sorry, I use nighties.  :-X

Title: Re: selecting all vias
Post by: hermit on August 20, 2017, 12:15:13 am

He got his answer on the KiCAD forum.  There is an option but you have to have the routing option enabled to get to the menu.