Edward Wang

How to add a mounting hole to a footprint in KiCad

I ran into this problem recently and there isn’t a clean way to do it.

The best solution in my experience is to define a pad using the “Add Pad” button. Screenshot 2026-07-04 at 4 45 16 PM

Then set:

Screenshot 2026-07-04 at 4 49 35 PM It’s kind of hacky to have to define a pad where you don’t actually want one, but this is just how it is. For reference, the standard library does this too: MountingHole:MountingHole_2.1mm

Screenshot 2026-07-04 at 4 44 55 PM