"Small drill marks" is too small for hand drill

[Tautvydas]

When making PCB (File -> Plot dialog) using toner transfer method the small drill marks is too small and is especially difficult to drill with hand-drill. I added patch with few modification which allows to select bigger drill marks, currently 3/4 and 1/2 scale of orginal drill size.

[jean-pierre charras (jp-charras)]

Patch very bad designed and not acceptable:
It does not ensure the drill marks are usable.
They can be too big (for a drill diameter = 4 mm for instance) or too small.

[Martin Errenst (imp-d)]

If we get something like a technology settings file (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/961533 ), it might be worth an idea to define this there.

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

There's room under the "Drill marks" popup for a "Small drill size" text control....

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

After 4 years, this one still has only a single requestor.

(If you meant to get on board earlier but didn't, feel free to click "This bug affects me" and set it back to "New".)

[Zoltan Gyarmati (zgyarmati)]

This also hit me with DIY PCBs, it would be indeed nice to have a setting option for this.

[Zoltan Gyarmati (zgyarmati)]

Even though it's in Won't Fix now, i went ahead and started to implement this, see the attached patch, which was also sent to the mailing list.
 Please feel free to comment either here or on the mailing list.

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

@Zoltan, master is now open for 6.0 development. Can you rebase your patch on the current master so I can give it a look? Thanks, Jeff.

[Zoltan Gyarmati (zgyarmati)]

Yep, it's on my todo list ever since 5.1 was released... I'll try do it during the weekend.

[Zoltan Gyarmati (zgyarmati)]

Patch sent to the mailing list, see:
https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg40199.html

Please post any notes or report issues on the mailing list

[KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor)]

KiCad bug tracker has moved to Gitlab. This report is now available here: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/1972